Mercyhurst University
NCAA DII • NEC
Date: September 27, 2022
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This coach came to my school after my first year of college field hockey to replace my previous coach. From the get go every single person on my team was made to feel that we should be kissing the ground that she walked on because she "let us stay on the team" after becoming head coach. Time and time again she shows that you have no reason to trust her with any personal information she manages to get out of you in one on one meetings where she talks about anything and everything besides field hockey. She has broken HIPPA laws multiple times while talking about other athletes in concerns to current or past health and also violated the team contract that she makes all of us sign for multiple reasons. According to our team contract, she is not allowed to talk to any parent about playing time or anything about the athlete of the parent without the prior consent of the athlete and she has done this on multiple occasions. She is truly embarrassing to be coached by as she yells at players, grad assistant coaches, and also referees during games. She consistently swears at players during games and also after games where she purely acts on emotion instead of giving herself time to cool off. While you can imagine the atmosphere of the team while interacting with her is nothing but negative, we maintain an extremely positive environment within our team (I would assume because we are all trauma bonded at this point). My final remarks will conclude by saying that also under our team contract we are not allowed to talk about other teammates during personal meetings with her. I can personally say and also have multiple corroborating stories of times where she has deliberately spoken of other members of the time under pretenses to create an inner team divide between "her girls" which she recruited and the others who were recruited under another coach. There is a lot more I could say about this coach but my therapist and I think that this is enough to be used as a good exercise for this session.