The University of Texas (Permian Basin)
NCAA DII • LSC
Date: March 20, 2024
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I would like say that I am glad she is leaving UTPB. She is honestly the worst coach I've have ever had in my 15 years of swimming. She favored the boys over the girls so it really does not make any sense as to why shes starting a women's team. When any girl would ask to watch their stroke for any correction she would say "she would watch" and once she would get to the wall Betsy helping out one of the boys. Then if you asked if she watched your stroke she would have said no I didnt see you until you reached the wall. Betsy also had a "system" where you get 3 strikes before you're kicked off the team and at least one "personal day" to miss a practice just to either catch up on school or just a self care day. To start off with "3 strike rule", she definitely had favorites on the team and no matter how much they get in trouble with drugs, alcohol or arrests they seem to still be on the team with no consequences or strikes given. Even if they missed multiple practices they still would have no strikes. However, if another swimmer that has never been in trouble but she doesn't favor wakes up late for a morning practice "ONE TIME" they automatically get a strike and get sent home. She has a very old school mentality of whatever she says goes. She doesn't listen to her athletes and even if she says something wrong she's "never wrong" She has no respect for people's personal issues that were told in private and then later would tell the whole team. She wouldn't say it like an announcement but she would put them on blast like they were a problem or a hinder to the team. I was injured my last year of swim and I know what MY BODY is capable of and I knew which events I could swim with out my injury flaring up. However if anyone was injured they would not be able to travel so many swimmers stopped coming to the Athletic Training Room to do rehab and ignored their injuries to be able to travel. She told me specifically that she doesn't believe in injuries and that it's just a lack of core and back and strength and that I need to see a chiropractor for my shoulder and not the Athletic Trainer. Last time I checked a chiropractor is for your back. Anyways, our athletic trainer wad assigned to different sports and swimming was on of them, at the time she was also was not a fan of Betsy. Betsy would try and tell what she thinks is best for the swimmers and that our athletic trainer doesn't know what she's doing. She also took people who were ineligible to travel meets and told people on the team that I was ineligible the whole season when I know I wasn't because if I was ineligible I would be fired from my job at the Success Center. I also knew I wasn't going to conference my last year of swim but I still wanted to finish my season regardless. She hinted at me to quit before a practice and said "You know you're not going to conference" and I replied with yes and she said back to me "so is it even worth you coming to practices anymore" and I told her "no but I want to finish my season so I'm coming to every mandatory practice until the season is over" I know she did this because she simply had no valid excuse to kick me off the team so she tried to get me to quit. I was even told by the new team captains at the time that she didn't even want to give me a senior recognition because she stated again that I was "ineligible all season" luckily one of them fought for me and said that I still swam 4 years even if I didn't compete my last season. I was told that she rolled her eye and the finally agreed to give me one. Once I finished swim I wanted to come to my first alumni meet the year after graduating and I did not feel welcomed she completely ignored me even when I politely acknowledged her. She never recognized me as an alumni but she did for everyone else that was in my class. I never wanted to go to any other swim meet or alumni meet after that and I swore I wouldn't go to another one until she was no longer a coach there. It's upsetting because I still had friends/former teammates that I wanted to see swim but due to her out most disrespect and unprofessionalism towards me, it has made me not even want to come to campus to visit friends for the sake of even trying to run into her. Also to mention that 14 people quit in ONE WEEK in her first year. In a total of the 3.5 years of her coaching at UTPB there have been well over 20 maybe even close to 30 swimmers that have quit, it's very unsettling knowing that many people have quit with in that timespan. Lastly I did want mention about how the Althetic Director had not done anything about the mutliple complaints that have been coming in about her since she got hired and Betsy would lie about having everything "handled" and that those issues being emailed were already "solved". However, its clear that they are budy budy and thats why he dimissed her behavior no matter how many complaints have be emailed. I would say more about her that I have heard from others however those are not my stories and complaints to share.