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
Gender: FemaleGrade Level of Event: College – division IISport Played: VolleyballYour Story: had doctors orders for no physical activity because I had 4 stress fractures in my back.. my coach made me speed walk 4 football field suicides knowing I wasn’t allowed to do any physical activity at all as a punishment all because two
Gender: NonbinaryGrade Level of Event: Club (around 12/13)Sport Played: Club (around 12/13)Your Story: i have always been self-conscious, and unfortunately this particular coach’s technique was yelling and getting incredibly mad at his players. he always singled me out and refused to engage in small talk with me outside of practice like he did with my
Gender: MaleGrade Level of Event: VarsitySport Played: TennisYour Story: My team came to the agreement that our coach was under-qualified but was a good person. But, in my final two years we realized she was not a good person either. I was a starting member on the team and mid season, I noticed my shoulder
Gender: FemaleGrade Level of Event: High SchoolSport Played: Swimming and DivingYour Story: Our diving coach would be staring at girls on our swimming and diving team in inappropriate ways- I told our female head coach and I was then gaslit by our athletic dir, superintendent, and FATHER- saying that I was lying.
Gender: FemaleGrade Level of Event: Club levelSport Played: GymnasticsYour Story: I was playing select soccer for a well known and “renowned” male coach. He coached boys high school and recently started coaching girls. He was beyond demeaning and used belittling language towards all of us as motivation. He coached with fear and the sport was no