A lawsuit filed Thursday in Kingfisher County District Court alleges a culture of hazing practiced and promoted within the KHS football program.

The lawsuit was filed by Oklahoma City attorney Cameron Spradling on behalf of a plaintiff listed as “John Doe No. 1,” identified only as a 2021 KHS graduate, now 18, who played football all four years of high school.

In a footnote, Spradling wrote that he’ll be filing a motion requesting permission to proceed without identifying the plaintiff, “due to the sensitive nature of the allegations.”

The footnote also alleges the possibility of multiple victims as an explanation of the “No. 1” designation.

Pseudonymous court filings are not the norm in Oklahoma and nearly always involve allegations of physical or sexual abuse against minors.

In addition to the school district, the lawsuit names head coach Jeff Myers, assistant coach Derek Patterson and former assistant coaches Blake Eaton and Micah Nall as defendants.

The lawsuit alleges KHS coaches encouraged and utilized hazing of new members to “weed out” weak players.

Although it alleges John Doe No. 1 and others suffered abuse that “rose to the level of torture,” the lawsuit provides no examples of hazing incidents.

Instead, it states that once the court grants the plaintiff’s motion to proceed under an alias, an amended petition will be filed describing the factual basis for the lawsuit, which will contain a “trigger warning,” due to its graphic description of “mental and physical child abuse.”

The lawsuit seeks actual and punitive damages against the coaching staff for intentional and reckless infliction of emotional distress, as well as damages against the school district for a laundry list of systemic failures that allowed the alleged hazing to occur and continue.

Kingfisher Superintendent Dr. Daniel Craig, who was not with the district at the time of any of the alleged incidents, said the district became aware of the lawsuit on Thursday, but declined comment.