Posted on 06/29/2023 7:16:58 PM PDT by Morgana
Harvard University has vowed to overhaul the culture of its women's hockey team after a long-time coach retired amid accusations of abusive behavior that one player compared to a 'mental health Hunger Games' in early June.
Katey Stone, 57, stepped down as head coach June 7 after a 29-year tenure that included four national championship appearances, but was eventually dogged by accusations she'd emotionally damaged players.
Multiple outlets have reported on a toxic on and off-ice culture for the program, including allegations that players felt forced to drink and perform 'sexually-charged role playing' as part of hazing rituals, according to the Boston Globe.
At practice, players were allegedly forced to do a 'Naked Skate' where players were told to dive on the ice in a Superman-pose while completely nude, often leaving skaters with ice burns and bloody nipples, The Athletic reported.
Athletic Director Erin McDermott announced Wednesday in a statement that the school plans to revamp the culture after Stone's retirement.
In a 2020 interview that was published on one of Harvard's official YouTube channels, Stone paid tribute to promoting a highly competitive atmosphere among her players. 'Coaching gives me the opportunity to stay competitive... [The players] have no idea what they're really capable of and if we continue to challenge them on a daily basis, the accomplish so much more.
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How about a prison sentence, after the fair trial?
Of course she did. Kids years ago did not tell but not now days. Not what after happened to those girls in the Olympics.
You can just bet that after this story more will come out at other schools.
Players anonymously told reporters of having to put condoms on bananas, simulate orgasms and perform skits mocking their sexual orientation.
TTIWWP
The coach must be a lesson. If this was WNBA, different story. Everyone is a lesson over there.
*lesbo - autocorrect
Lesbian?
It’s Harvard.
As a friend calls it, the Kremlin on the Charles.
Certainly, scholastics isn’t their primary goal.
Naked girls hockey? Id pay to watch that,,,
Ok, a woman coach did this to other women.
Where are all the keyboard tough guy white knights here who will brag they will kill her any number of ways for doing this to women? Hmm?
Tough guys virtue signalling they are tradcons?
Where are all the women outraged and wanting a literal piece of genitalia chopped off from her?
Yeah, thought so.
At the bottom…
“ Stone - who coached the silver medal-winning USA women’s hockey team at the 2014 Sochi Olympics - was never directly implicated but former players said she was aware of what was going on and didn’t stop it.”
Also, from another article, “ 16 players (three of them named), accused Stone of misconduct, including insensitivity to mental health issues, pressuring players to return from injuries, body shaming and more. The paper also reported there was hazing within the program.”
I never participated in hazing underclassmen. And you have to be stupid not to be cognizant of our current social realities. This just seems more a case of a coach out of tune with the times.
between the Gymnastics...and the Soccer team...now this garbage. Not too mention the figure skating non sense over the years. Is all this aggravation worth it?? Just get rid of womens sports. Just too annoying....gawd.
There has to be a co-conspirator. There just has to. I just don’t know who it might have been.
The worst part was when some of the players started fighting, and then a hockey game broke out.
Yes, once again, you’re going to tell me that major accusations like this didn’t come out decades ago?
No one bothered to snitch?
Come on.
Sounds horrible, but when I hear she’s been allegedly doing this for decades….why does no one have the guts to say anything?
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