BREAKING. THREAD. People ask why women don’t just refuse to play. It’s bc their college scholarships are threatened.
Here we see the head coach of the volleyball team get advice from counsel? on whether he can get one of the women off the team and take her scholarship! 1/
Here we see the head coach of the volleyball team get advice from counsel? on whether he can get one of the women off the team and take her scholarship! 1/
Todd Kress is the head coach. Gary Brickwood is an atty. Gary sent Todd a message where he says the school has the “discretion to decide that [Brooke] Slusser…should lose her playing position, co-captain position and her scholarship”!!!
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Why? What did she do? She is being public about problems on their team caused by the man who is playing on it.
Read the whole email. It’s amazing. Look at what this guy says about Brooke’s mother!
Can you imagine? 3/
Read the whole email. It’s amazing. Look at what this guy says about Brooke’s mother!
Can you imagine? 3/
Then that head coach, sent a copy of this email to his assistant head coach, Melissa Baite-Smoose. I’ll view it as a threat and a warning to Brooke.
Shortly after Melissa blew the whistle on this and other allegations she was placed on indefinite leave! 4/
Shortly after Melissa blew the whistle on this and other allegations she was placed on indefinite leave! 4/
The stakes here are enormous and the damages are real. Melissa lost her job. Brooke could lose her scholarship. All bc they dare to say women’s sports should be for women.
They are both heroes who are speaking up in the face of severe financial harm. 5/
They are both heroes who are speaking up in the face of severe financial harm. 5/
The full story can be read here.
San Jose State University is treating the women there so unfairly. All so they can have a man on a woman’s volleyball team. 6/
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San Jose State University is treating the women there so unfairly. All so they can have a man on a woman’s volleyball team. 6/
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The pressure and threats and dire consequences to anyone who dares speak up on behalf of the women is unreal.
We have to support these women volleyball players! 7/
We have to support these women volleyball players! 7/
If you haven’t been following the story, one team, San Jose State has a man on the women’s team and six times now women’s teams have chosen to forfeit rather than play against him.
SJSU is losing money bc the games are being cancelled and they are upset. Poor babies. 8/
SJSU is losing money bc the games are being cancelled and they are upset. Poor babies. 8/
And now the SJSU team is allegedly falling apart. The women don’t want to practice with the man. They are all upset. Wins feel like hollow victories. The head coach is threatening the players. It’s a mess!
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