Jayson Boehm pleaded guilty Thursday, June 9 to four counts of unlicensed practice of medicine, forgery and first-degree theft.

He could be sentenced to a maximum of 14 months in prison. His sentencing hearing is next month.

Boehm was charged by King County prosecutors in December of 2010, covered by the Highline Times here.

Boehm provided first aid at Highline School District games and provided first aid training to coaches and P.E. teachers. He also served as substitute stadium manager at Highline Memorial Field.

However, the state Department of Health charged that Boehm also conducted physical exams on more than two-dozen male and female students. Most of the exams were given to Evergreen High student athletes. Boehm was not licensed to give physicals.

He was also charged with falsifying forms to make it appear that they were signed by a physician. The school district fired Boehm after the allegations came to light. A school nurse reported to her supervisor that Boehm had provided a medical excuse for a student.

At about the same time, the King County Sheriff's Office told district officials that Boehm was being investigated for improperly touching a boxer at a non-school event at Evergreen High. During a March 2010 Police Athletic League boxing match, Boehm allegedly touched the genitals of a boxer who had suffered a bloody nose.

The scandal touched off by the Boehm allegations spread throughout the Highline athletic program and adversely affected several others. Jackie Lewis was removed as acting district athletic director and assistant Highline High principal. He has since left the district. Daylene Boehm, Jayson's sister and Evergreen athletic director, was fired by the district.

The district hired Terri McMahan as a full-time district athletic coordinator. She has hired several new school athletic directors and toughened standards.

Former Highline Medical Center Emergency Room Chief Jim Rice has been barred from providing low-cost sports physicals at school or volunteer coaching at Highline High.

Dr. Rice and district athletic administrators differed on ringworm treatment for the Highline wrestling team. The officials also said Rice drove female wrestlers to an unauthorized Sedro-Woolley tournament.

Besides serving as Highline High assistant wrestling coach, Rice had been the Highline High football team doctor on the game sidelines since 1985. His father was a long-time member of the Highline School Board.

CLARIFICATION:
The inclusion of Dr. Jim Rice in a June 17 Times/News article on the guilty plea of Jayson Boehm was not meant to imply that Dr. Rice has been accused of wrongdoing or improprieties as a volunteer in the Highline School District's athletic programs.

Dr. Rice is a licensed physician and former head of the Highline Medical Center Emergency Department. He has never been accused of wrongdoing while offering low-cost physicals at Highline High School for the past 25 years.

Dr. Rice drove eight or nine wrestlers in a van to a wrestling tournament in Sedro-Wooley. District officials objected to the trip because it was out of the area and not authorized by administrators. No parents or students complained and there were no reports of wrongdoing.