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Soccer Player Who Wouldn't Kneel Receives $100K Settlement
Newsmax ^ | January 9, 2023 | Theodore Bunker

Posted on 01/09/2023 12:07:01 PM PST by Navy Patriot

A former Virginia Tech soccer player will receive $100,000 as part of a settlement after she accused her coach of refusing to play her because she would not kneel during a social-justice demonstration, The Roanoke Times reported.

Kiersten Hening filed a federal lawsuit in 2021 against her former coach, Charles "Chugger" Adair, claiming that her First Amendment rights were violated. She agreed to dismiss the suit as part of the settlement, which does not include any admission of wrongdoing on the part of Hening or Adair.

Hening claimed that Adair "verbally attacked" her at halftime of a game on Sept. 12, 2020, after she did not kneel while a "unity statement" was read before the game. She also said that she quit the team two games later and accused the coach of carrying out a "campaign of abuse and retaliation."

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Maybe a normal person CAN make good money from a Woke Prog Leftist Cancel College Education like Virginia Tech!

Who knew?

1 posted on 01/09/2023 12:07:01 PM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Should have been a million.


2 posted on 01/09/2023 12:08:55 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Navy Patriot
"It’s unfortunate, but this ordeal was about a disappointment and disagreement about playing time. Today, we have clarity that this case lacked any standing, and without evidence, the truth has prevailed."

Because a hundred grand out of your employer's pocket is peanuts.

3 posted on 01/09/2023 12:09:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: BenLurkin

And it should come out of the coach’s ass.

L


4 posted on 01/09/2023 12:10:13 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Navy Patriot

I wish they would pay me to not play soccer.


5 posted on 01/09/2023 12:11:21 PM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Lurker

Indeed, it should!


6 posted on 01/09/2023 12:12:57 PM PST by EliRoom8
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To: Navy Patriot

they are roasting Chigger on twitter.


7 posted on 01/09/2023 12:14:18 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Virginia Tech is

$32k for instate
$52k for out-of-state

That price includes tuition, housing, and other fees

The $100k settlement won’t even cover her college costs for 4 years.


8 posted on 01/09/2023 12:15:25 PM PST by Tai_Chung
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I wish they would pay me to not play soccer.

All modern American colleges and universities (except about a half dozen), pay all their instructional employees to NOT perform their job description and be truly worthless to society.

I'm sure they'd include you, just substitute the word "Professor" for the word "soccer".

You would find they would pay very well for you to play Professor.

9 posted on 01/09/2023 12:23:30 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

Chiggers are nasty little suckers.


10 posted on 01/09/2023 12:24:49 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

I’m university faculty already.

Instructional faculty are expected to write or do grant work to bring in money/recognition. Everyone else gets paid a flat rate as an adjunct or they use grad assistants to teach classes.


11 posted on 01/09/2023 12:41:24 PM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Navy Patriot

I hope the coach paid the settlement personally.


12 posted on 01/09/2023 12:49:27 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

How did Chugger get his nickname?


13 posted on 01/09/2023 12:53:11 PM PST by Laslo Fripp (Does anybody proofread anymore?)
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To: Navy Patriot

She should not have settled unless it was nothing short of the COST of a full scholarship.......then she could transfer to Hillsdale College or Patrick Henry.


14 posted on 01/09/2023 1:08:29 PM PST by Salvavida (“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”)
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To: Navy Patriot

OUTSTANDING!

Too bad it wasn't more.

15 posted on 01/09/2023 1:14:19 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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I’m university faculty already.

Hope it's at Hillsdale (although Hillsdale is not a university), or the equivalent.

...they use grad assistants to teach classes.

Of course they do, ...

... like Scientology.

16 posted on 01/09/2023 1:20:19 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

100,000. Should have been a lot more. She shouldn’t have seetled.


17 posted on 01/09/2023 1:21:31 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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Here's hoping Tech's legal counsel who settled this for him, jerked the everlasting slack out of Chigger for shooting off his mouth after the settlement release AND using school-sanctioned social media to do it.

Frankly the girl's lawyer should have included an apology from Chigger as part-and-parcel. What a great temptation to find a way to void the settlement, and run this asshole through The Process and promise him to his face, not just to embarrass him, but his family. Buy the ticket, take the ride, Chigger. There is no room for shitstains like this anywhere.

18 posted on 01/09/2023 1:26:14 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: Navy Patriot

“she would not kneel during a social-justice demonstration”

So was this about white athletes kneeling before their colored “mass’a”?


19 posted on 01/09/2023 1:27:04 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Navy Patriot

Tw@t.


20 posted on 01/09/2023 1:34:00 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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