Montville and East Catholic High School officials met Wednesday to discuss an alleged racist incident when the two schools met for a football game last week.

According to a Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference news release, “The schools engaged in an open discussion surrounding the events at a football game between the schools last Friday.”

A Montville high school cheerleader said she was screamed at, spat on and called a racist slur by students at East Catholic High School following a football game in Manchester last Friday night.

"Go home, (N-word)," is what cheerleader Nadya Wynn, 16, says a couple of East Catholic students said to her as she was attempting to grab her bag to leave the game.

"I finally lost it and started having a panic attack," Wynn said. "To have hundreds of people screaming at you and have racial slurs thrown at you, getting spit at and water thrown at you is scary, especially if it has never happened in your life before. I never want to have this happen in my life ever again."

The CIAC release said Montville and East Catholic would put out a joint statement “in the coming days” and that “student leaders from both schools will attend a meeting and Class Act Council leadership training at CIAC offices.”

CIAC spokesperson John Holt said the schools would release the statement “sometime in the next day or so sharing their thoughts on what happened at the football game and what steps they’ve taken to prevent that sort of behavior.”

Holt said both Montville and East Catholic “happen to be ‘Class Act’ schools” and in addition to the normal expectations of sportsmanship, “We expect a little more from our ‘Class Act’ schools.”

“We’re going to have the students come to our offices to meet and discuss some of the issues and go through a little leadership training,” he said Wednesday.

This is not the only instance of admitted or alleged racism in the region’s high school sports in recent memory. In April, The Day reported that Bacon Academy in Colchester had been addressing racial comments allegedly made by girls basketball coach John Shea about members of the New London High School basketball team during a game last month.

According to a letter sent to parents of basketball players on March 12, Shea allegedly made racially charged comments about basketball players from New London to players on his own team while they were huddled up during halftime at a game against New London on March 9.

The comments "included a reference to the race of the opposing team," according to the letter sent by Colchester Superintendent Jeffrey Burt and Bacon Academy Principal Matthew Peel.

And in May, a white male senior student at North Stonington’s Wheeler High School called a Black freshman student the N-word following an argument. Deondre Bransford, the father of the freshman, criticized the school system for its handling of the incident at the time.

“The senior got so upset with him that he told him to 'shut up, you (N-word),’” Bransford said. “Two white students stood up for my son, and my son didn’t even report this. It was the two white students who reported it. They jumped up to his defense and were like, ‘No, this is wrong.’”

Bransford said at the time that he and his son did not want the senior student to be “persecuted” because “we understand that everybody makes mistakes, everybody has a bad day, but it shouldn’t have happened.”

S.spinella@theday.com