Mission Viejo Coaches Suspect Spies

MISSION VIEJO —  Mission Viejo High School’s football practices have been interrupted several times during the past two weeks because coaches spotted someone photographing the team and diagraming plays.

Coaches discovered someone watching practice Monday and Tuesday of last week before Mission Viejo’s South Coast League game against Capistrano Valley. Last Wednesday, a team manager chased a man who had been photographing a practice near the school’s industrial arts center.

“We found some formations scribbled into bark off one of the eucalyptus trees above our practice field,” Mission Viejo Coach Mike Rush said. “(They) were the same off-balance formations we were practicing that day.”

On Tuesday, assistant coach Ken Sjobom chased a man who had been photographing the team.