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Appalling if true...especially at a university that is supposed to be so "woke" :
Fox 2/KTVU, the local Fox station in the Bay Area, released a reported on Sunday detailing allegations of verbal abuse within the Cal Women’s Soccer program from the past decade. Fox 2/KTVU interviewed a number of current and former players from the program about the behavior of head coach Neil McGuire, who is in his 13th season in charge of the team.
“I was so scared of this man,” former player Hannah Koski told KTVU about McGuire.
“I ran until I couldn’t feel my arms anymore,” former player Olivia Sekany said about a punishing workout. “And on the last lap that we were doing, my vision went black as I crossed the finish line, and I started saying, ‘I can’t see! I can’t see!”
Indigo Gibson, who declined to be interviewed on camera, wrote a letter to the News Station about McGuire.
"[McGuire] would discuss my relationship with my father as a sign of weakness in my development as a player,” Gibson wrote in the letter. “It is the fear of Neil [McGuire] that sticks out in my head.”
Other players expressed how their interaction with McGuire ruined their joy of the sport.
“Any love I had for soccer, he completely took away,” former player Caroline Clark told KTVU. “I just wasn’t happy anymore.”
According to KTVU, multiple players reached out to administration at the school in regards to McGuire’s behavior. The university declined to make anyone from the athletic department available for an interview and cited pending litigation.
Former player Renee Thomas is suing the university following being cut from the team after her freshman season. Thomas was a non-scholarship player during her freshman season in 2018. She played 304 minutes during the season, but she was one of five players cut from the team in the spring even though she was awarded the “most improved player” award at the team banquet.
The case was dismissed from the district court in March of 2020.
Cal did confirm to KTVU that the university was looking into the allegations that the news station brought forth during their report.
California is 18-17-5 over the last two seasons, and has not made it past the second round of the NCAA Tournament in the last decade.
Fox 2/KTVU, the local Fox station in the Bay Area, released a reported on Sunday detailing allegations of verbal abuse within the Cal Women’s Soccer program from the past decade. Fox 2/KTVU interviewed a number of current and former players from the program about the behavior of head coach Neil McGuire, who is in his 13th season in charge of the team.
“I was so scared of this man,” former player Hannah Koski told KTVU about McGuire.
“I ran until I couldn’t feel my arms anymore,” former player Olivia Sekany said about a punishing workout. “And on the last lap that we were doing, my vision went black as I crossed the finish line, and I started saying, ‘I can’t see! I can’t see!”
Indigo Gibson, who declined to be interviewed on camera, wrote a letter to the News Station about McGuire.
"[McGuire] would discuss my relationship with my father as a sign of weakness in my development as a player,” Gibson wrote in the letter. “It is the fear of Neil [McGuire] that sticks out in my head.”
Other players expressed how their interaction with McGuire ruined their joy of the sport.
“Any love I had for soccer, he completely took away,” former player Caroline Clark told KTVU. “I just wasn’t happy anymore.”
According to KTVU, multiple players reached out to administration at the school in regards to McGuire’s behavior. The university declined to make anyone from the athletic department available for an interview and cited pending litigation.
Former player Renee Thomas is suing the university following being cut from the team after her freshman season. Thomas was a non-scholarship player during her freshman season in 2018. She played 304 minutes during the season, but she was one of five players cut from the team in the spring even though she was awarded the “most improved player” award at the team banquet.
The case was dismissed from the district court in March of 2020.
Cal did confirm to KTVU that the university was looking into the allegations that the news station brought forth during their report.
California is 18-17-5 over the last two seasons, and has not made it past the second round of the NCAA Tournament in the last decade.