Temecula School Board Trustees Face Fallout For Comparing Teen Athletes To Strippers In Photo

TEMECULA, CA — Two Temecula Valley Unified School District Governing Board trustees are facing community backlash after mistaking Temecula Valley High School water polo players’ uniform Speedos for underwear and making comments of a sexual nature about the images on social media.

A social media thread discussing a Temecula Valley Unified School District parent survey on school dress code devolved this week into a lewd discussion of a photo of the water polo players, according to screengrabs of the since-deleted posts obtained by Patch. Many parents said they were outraged by the language used by Temecula Valley Unified School District Governing Board members Dr. Joseph Komrosky and Jen Wiersma. Both are up for reelection in 2026.

The photo posted by a team mom to the TVHS Baseball social media page shows the boys arm in arm, with ‘B-E-A-R-S-!’ painted on their chests, as is often done at sports games. Several were snapped standing in their CIF-issued Speedos, pants briefly down for the pic, showing the TVHS CIF-issued suit. The image was shot at an after-school-hours baseball game and posted in support of the school’s baseball team.

Komrosky referenced the photo in the thread about the school’s dress code, claiming the boys, freshman through juniors, were “in their underwear,” a step from “Chippendale dancers,” while Wiersma said they looked like a “OnlyFans crew.”

The statements have rocked team parents to the core.

Komrosky took the boys to task in comments directly to Wiersma.

“Case in point Jen. Just five hours ago the TVHS baseball page posted a picture where most of the boys had their pants down in underwear. You tell me if that’s appropriate for a baseball team?” He wrote, slanted the statement back to having a "better dress policy."

Wiersma reshared that same photo, blacking out the bathing suits in her resharing of the image, writing:

“Speaking of dress code. Are our teams now an ‘OnlyFans’ crew? Hats off to the kids who kept their pants on.”

Later, Komrosky wrote: “My concern is that I do not want them to look like they’re in a sexually provocative strip tease looking like their [sic] one step closer to the Chippendales. We don’t need that in our school district in our community.”

The back-and-forth comments between the board members were public.

Wiersma deleted her Instagram story the next morning, she said. Meanwhile, families across the district are still talking about it.

On Wednesday, the Boys' Water Polo Board President, Sharon Sardina, received a call that her son was in the photograph that had been shared on social media for public discussion by school board members, she told Patch.

“The call brought to my attention that (Komrosky and Wiersma) lit up my son and the teammates for what they wore at the baseball game,” she said. “Reading the comments, they have defamed my child with the things they wrote. The fact two grown people would say such things about my 17-year-old son, share pictures on social media of minor children, is unconscionable.”

The water polo team was fresh from a Swim Meet for CIF, according to Sardina. The boys are proud of their sport. They are proud to have won the CIF State Championship in 2025 and just received their rings, Sardinia said.

“How did we go from running down from a swim meet to cheer on our team and undefeated season to now we are only fans!” Sardina said. “My child has character, he has class, and he has a good family.”

Shoehorning that picture into a conversation about school dress code was bad form and bordered on abuse, according to parents who lashed out at the board members on social media. Another parent suggested that it violated the SafeSport Act.

“But you couldn’t message the team if it’s breaking rules? You need to publicly sexualize it and compare it to inappropriate things?? Where is your self-control and role model behavior? Do better," Stacy Augmon wrote on Instagram.

Though the post was deleted, numerous comments regarding the team were captured on a screenshot and have led both Wiersma and Komrosky to apologize.

Wiersma clarified her statement on Instagram. Wiersma removed several of her comments and the picture. The trustee posted her statement Friday:

“On Wednesday night, I posted my reaction to a photo circulating on social media,” she wrote. “With no water, goggles, gear, or context, I didn’t know these were water polo athletes. As a fellow mom of athletes and boys, I can appreciate their school spirit and enthusiasm. As a trustee, I believe we should appropriately protect minors and our optics as a district with social media representation and ads. I truly apologize for offending any of our families. I thought better of it and removed my story the next morning.”

The apology missed the mark, said Sardina.

“That apology is bogus. She reshared the photo, she blacked out the students’ CIF Speedo uniforms, so it looks even worse. I used to 100-percent support them. I no longer do. I see their comments, these are board members that are supposed to support and protect our kids and they are bashing my son and us as parents and talking about dress code at an after-school hour event.”

The students are seeing and reading every comment made about them by adults, she said.

“They are grown people, and this is cyberbullying my child, and belittling our family,” she said. “My son has an Instagram account and has been on there and read every single comment. Luckily, he has thick skin.”

Sardina’s son has spoken with both the TVHS athletic director and principal about the photo at the baseball game. No action has been taken for the picture, which has disappeared from social media.

“They walked from the pool to the baseball stadium to cheer on the baseball team. They had pants on, they showed their uniforms underneath,” she said. “Would you have them walk to the baseball field from the pool in what? Nothing? The boys briefly flashed their CIF water polo uniforms as they cheered on the hot streak of the TVHS baseball team.”

At the crux of the matter was how they used the water polo team photo to bring up the dress code issue, which is the trustee’s latest hot button for the TVUSD trustees. Patch has reached out to both Wiersma and Komrosky for a statement.

On topic, Aaron Hoover stated, "Do teachers and staff have a dress code? Why not students? Having a standard is always a good thing, and it usually invites a positive learning culture."

Sardina, meanwhile, thinks dress code is the “least of our worries” in the district.

“First, they focus on the dress code, and now we’re policing what people wear after-school hours. Where is the focus on our test scores and how we’re doing? Where is the passion for how they are learning? Now your passion is saying that our minors look like ‘OnlyFans?’ I would like a public apology, I would like them to resign. This is all that is being talked about. What will that do to our son?”

Another parent weighed in on Instagram, accusing the elected officials of going too far.

“I'm not upset that the team posted the photo. I'm upset that elected officials who are supposed to be leaders in the district and protect our children would repost the photo showing their faces and comparing them to a pornographic website (OnlyFans) and say that it looks like a sexually provocative striptease looking like their [sic] one step closer to the Chippendales. I didn't do that. Jen and Joe did.”