Gender: FemaleGrade Level of Event: 9/10 grade varsitySport Played: CheerYour Story: My coaches have favorite players. One of those constantly belittles me, makes fun of me, calls me names, told me I should be eating less. I told my coaches about it and they told me to suck it up.
Gender: MaleGrade Level of Event: LifitimeSport Played: FootballYour Story: I haven’t experienced any traumatizing experiences with any coach but I wholeheartedly believe that most coaches used harsh language at kids and hitting our helmets It is what changes boys to men.
Gender: FemaleGrade Level of Event: MultipleSport Played: Competitive CheerYour Story: As a parent and cheerleading coach myself, I have witnessed cheerleaders be verbally abused about their skill set, body and performance by their coaches. I’ve seen young girls shrink inside themselves as a result of how they were talked to or treated. The verbal abuse
Gender: FemaleGrade Level of Event: Little LeagueSport Played: FootballYour Story: As a parent, I watched little league for years. Over the years I’ve seen coaches grip up kids and yell at them for mistakes adults would make too. I know it’s also about discipline, but sometimes these guys get to rough for little kids. Where
Gender: FemaleGrade Level of Event: High SchoolSport Played: CheerleadingYour Story: There was a coach that verbally abused the team. She would cuss and yell for simple missteps in the routine. She made every nervous and uncomfortable. She would even get into the girls’ faces to invoke a fight.
Gender: FemaleGrade Level of Event: Freshman-Senior VarsitySport Played: Varsity CheerleadingYour Story: I had a coach who would have us run and condition for a long period of time before having us run our routines. Her decision left us so tired that we were not sharp, which would induce more conditioning. The practice would follow right
Gender: FemaleGrade Level of Event: 3rd-7thSport Played: GymnasticsYour Story: I had this coach who would scream and scream at us for hours. He would also take away our water. He would make us practice through injuries and sickness. He would get so mad if you skipped one practice. He would also make us do skills
Gender: MaleGrade Level of Event: 12Sport Played: LacrosseYour Story: The head lacrosse coach used to call certain kids on the team “re****s”, “dip-**it”, “loser”, “f’n re****”, “stupid”. He also made a kid run for a whole practice of 2 hours calling him names and saying he could quit to make it stop. He coached through
Gender: FemaleGrade Level of Event: CollegeSport Played: HockeyYour Story: My story is about my experience playing for my college’s female hockey team. I was very excited to play hockey in college. I had been playing since I was five and many former teammates of mine were going to be on the team. The beginning of the
Gender: MaleGrade Level of Event: Freshman in College Division 1Sport Played: FootballYour Story: The abuse started slow and some early things I could shake off or convince myself it’s college football, then abuse became more blatant. How can an offensive lineman be abused? The Coach would spit and hit me over the head repeatedly, kick