Robert Morris University (PA)
ACHA M1 • CHMA
Date: August 2, 2026
Would Recommend
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Where there is smoke, there is fire. Beware of Grove and her staff! In Grove’s 3 years at RMU, 12 players have either transferred or quit lacrosse altogether. Several were either starters or contributing players. Things are so bad a starter quit with half a season left, due to the mental anguish caused by Grove. Grove is a game player, she messes with players mental health, and this has been repeated over and over. Grove will sit players who were starting and/or regularly playing and provide little in terms of what they did or need to do to get back to their roles. She punishes the whole team with excessive physical drills when a single team member violates a team rule. Her 'favorites' can do whatever they want with never any call out. Several players have brought forward complaints to the Athletic Administration. That AD has since resigned. Grove takes advantage of the inherent trust the players give her and then manipulates them. They ask for feedback to improve their game, little if anything concrete is ever given back to the player. Grove gets defensive if anyone challenges her. Grove is very passive aggressive, will come across super nice and then turn on players. This team has continued to drop in the MAC rankings under Grove. Teams in the MAC they once handled easily are beating them now. Pre-game preparation is always last minute and totally unorganized. Video sessions are a waste if they are ever done. No real strategy is developed to beat the opposition. Grove coaches the same repeatedly. Game plans never change. Players who take bad penalties never sit. Players who consistently turn the ball over never sit. Draw after draw is lost, and nothing is done till maybe second half to change it. Team is getting pounded early on and yet no change to starters. Assistant Coaches are relatively ineffective and very immature. Coaches and support staff have been inappropriate with comments with team members. Grove texting a freshman about what the freshman thought the team should do to improve performance. Assistant coach talking about husbands’ sexual prowess with the team. Assistant coach arriving at practice hung over to the point of throwing up. Assistant Coach showering in the players locker room. Trainer making sexual inappropriate comments to players about their bodies. A strength coach snap chatting sexual inuendo and inappropriate comments to a player. Players making sexuality based inappropriate comments to an opposing team's player with no consequences. Player manhandling a teammate in practice with no consequence. Players mocking team mates to the point mental health becomes a serious concern or the player transfers. Players babysitting or housesitting for Grove. Several players have been ostracized by their classmates to the point of impacting their mental health and Grove does nothing about it. Underage freshmen drinking to the point of blacking out to the point Grove had to come on campus to deal with it. Grove has no regard for alumni, very little done to engage them to want to come back. Alumni who now coach, telling their players to stay away from RMU.