California Polytechnic State University (San Luis Obispo)
NCAA DI • NULL
Date: July 21, 2023
Would Recommend
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Where there's smoke, there's fire, so when the masses are saying Phil Yoshida is a problem....he's a problem and a threat to the welfare of anyone he attempts to coach or work with. While I believe he would like to be a superstar coach, lead his teams to break school records and personal bests, he is not. Just because you want to do something, doesn't make you qualified. Please note that he was fired by the very swimming club he started in San Luis Obispo for all of these issues an more, that have been high lighted below by so many. I strongly advise against entrusting your student athletes with this person. Phil simply isn't qualified professionally or emotionally to be in this by default role. I wouldn't trust my kids with him and I don't believe anyone else should. I watched him as his toddler fell in the pool right in front of him, not once, but twice. The second time he just watched as she sank to the bottom of the pool in front of the swimming team and club divers. He refuses to accept help that could raise him up and instead takes out anyone, athlete or coach, that he feels threatened by. It's deeply disturbing and sad that he is single handedly destroying the morale and dreams of so many student athletes. Cal Poly's reputation is such that people are literally willing to throw away their competitive career just to get into the school through the swimming & diving program. Make no mistake, he is not honest, he is not ethical, he is not mature, he manages by extreme fear and intimidation, he threatens athletes and his assistant coaching staff routinely. His normal mode is to keep everyone in constant fear with micro aggressions, bullying, outright lies, manipulation of facts, and uncontrolled emotional outbursts. He is not organized, he is insensitive to nutrition and recognizing the dietary restrictions of the group he's responsible for. His number 1 concern is BUDGET and not results. Hence he buys absolute garbage food for the team that are nothing more than empty calories and sugary snacks that have negative results when elite athletes fail to be properly nourished for competition. Cheap generic garbage in, crappy performance out. He would appear to be protected for some reason, perhaps by the Athletic Director Don Oberhelman, who has been aware of this problem for the past two years that Phil's been in this role. While other universities like Cal Berkeley, Northwestern and more and more, have chosen a zero tolerance to bullying, hostile coaching, constant micro aggression, Cal Poly and their administration, to date, knowing all of these factors, has done nothing to stop this. In an age of equality, Title IX, anti bullying, anti harassment and intolerance to this kind of behavior, once must ask how this is happening within such an incredible university. I am a seasoned professional with decades of experience and knowledge in these areas and cannot understand how someone like Phil Yoshida is allowed to remain in this role. Worse yet, Cal Poly's administration knows about this. The only records he's set are for having lost the most swimmers and divers annually, for the past two years running now (40+) than any other division 1 school. Either he's a horrible recruiter or he's a incapable coach, or both. I challenge the administration to stop this negative cycle, to remove this person from his post and walk the walk of what you say. It's deeply disturbing to see this continue and I again, highly suggest staying away from the Cal Poly Swimming & Diving program until his is removed. I'd rank him as ZERO and a major threat to the wellbeing of the people he's responsible for, both assistant coaches, people he bullies internally at Cal Poly, and the athletes he's responsible for.