The Rainier Beach High School boys basketball team.
The Rainier Beach High School boys basketball team.
  • A Seattle high school basketball team spent Christmas in Vegas after a canceled Southwest flight.
  • The coaches spent days and thousands of dollars taking care of the players and trying to get them home.
  • In the end, a businessman paid nearly $15,000 to charter a bus to bring them home.

An entire high school basketball team from Seattle, Washington, ended up stranded in Las Vegas for five days over Christmas after Southwest canceled their flight and left them scrambling to get home, spending thousands of dollars, and eventually driving 18 hours on a bus through the snow.