Good Sports: Donkey basketball at Sierra High School

TOLLHOUSE, Calif. (KFSN) -- In Tollhouse, Sierra High has enactment the word "March Madness" to the test.

"We person donkey basketball," says teacher Rich Vandenack.

Yes - donkeys and basketball.

"How would I picture it? Something that you've ne'er seen before," Vandenack said.

It's an improbable yearly contented the Chieftains person been hosting for much than 40 years.

"This is not thing that each schoolhouse gets to do," says Ariana Rodriguez.

"It's an accidental for parents to spot their kids doing thing a small much than conscionable the mean FFA stuff," says Zowey Witt.

Organized by the school's Future Farmers of America Club, summons merchantability proceeds straight payment the students passim the year.

Although immoderate Chieftains mightiness beryllium amateurs, the donkeys are pros.

"This is simply a peculiar acceptable of donkeys, truthful they're trained for this," Vandenack said.

To assistance support the hardwood successful check, the donkeys adjacent person their ain acceptable of Air Jordans.

"They person small shoes connected the bottommost of their hooves, truthful it protects," Vandenack said.

What if the donkey has to spell to the bathroom?

"They conscionable spell and they scoop it up," Witt said.

Unlike horses, the donkeys tally their discourtesy a small slower.

"Pass the shot a lot," Witt said. "You can't determination your donkey excessively easily, truthful support it passing, support it moving."

As is the lawsuit each twelvemonth - a conflict of the sexes.

"We person a boys squad and a girls squad going against each other," Rodriguez said.

Whether you're determination for the donkeys, the kindergarteners singing the nationalist anthem oregon conscionable immoderate bully old-fashioned competition, it's a triumph for everybody successful Tollhouse.

"It's not lone a fundraiser -- it's conscionable a amusive lawsuit for the kids and arsenic you tin see, it's conscionable a amusive lawsuit for the community," Vandenack said.

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