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Originally posted by Mark Padgett
A volunteer assistant girls HS basketball coach (a 22 year old female) has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a 15 year old girl and giving her marijuana. The coach was also a paid track coach last season, but her contract was not renewed. A pretrial conference is set for next week.
This coach helped with a local summer league for a few years and was fairly active in coaching local rec teams. I have worked games involving her teams from time to time.
Also - the girls head basketball coach at the school has been suspended by the school administration "pending an investigation". The school refused to say if the investigation was related in any way to the arrest of the assistant.
This is my local HS where all three of my kids went. My younger daughter had the head coach as a health teacher and I know him very well. It would be absolutely mind-blowing to me if he had even the slightest involvement in the other case. He is very well respected around here and had always seemed to me to be a great guy.
I guess we'll see what happens.
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I felt sick to my stomach when I saw this in the paper last week. I've always liked him. He's the only coach that actually followed through and looked in the books after the game, when he told me during the game that he wanted to see the fine print on a certain rule.
He was very helpful and encouraging when I was starting to have camps. Did a lot of work to make me successful.
He also took a certain amount of racial mis-treatment with dignity and aplomb -- came out looking a lot better than the stupid white women who were being snippy. I've respected him for that for years.
Was his suspension related to the other situation? I can't imagine. And if so, was he also suspended at his other sitch (name unmentioned) for the same reason?
If anything comes of this, I'll be shocked, but I guess what they say is true -- you just never know.
Mark, I'd also be interested in knowing who the young woman was. It had her name in the paper, but that didn't mean anything to me. Who did she coach? What does she look like?