After the Delaware State girls’s lacrosse crew misplaced a detailed 14-10 choice to Fairleigh Dickinson, the gamers reportedly paid a painful worth for it.
Following the March 16 match, DSU gamers, based on Lacrosse Extras, endured alleged punishment.
“To punish gamers, the coaches compelled them to roll up and down the sphere throughout a subsequent follow, video exhibits.”
Three mother and father spoke with Lacrosse Extras on the situation of anonymity, alleging abuse by former head coach Pamella Jenkins and assistant coach Jovan Estrada and negligence from Delaware State athletic director Alecia Shields-Gadson.
“Coach Estrada, beneath the attention of Pam Jenkins, allowed a random ‘good friend’ of his to return to follow and ‘punish’ the women,” one guardian mentioned. “These had been the phrases utilized by the unknown social gathering and the coaches themselves. What resulted was bodily and verbal abuse over the course of the subsequent 90+ minutes.”
Mother and father claimed they reached out to the Delaware State administration and initially acquired pushback.
“When the varsity was notified about this (and the truth that a video was made), they tried to first over-talk it, saying such issues are allowed,” one other nameless guardian mentioned. “When pressed additional and advised the person current had no attachment, clearance, or allowance to this system, they flinched. When advised that Pam [Jenkins] was current, they instantly went into damage-control mode.”
Consequently, Estrada was fired and Jenkins was positioned on go away, which lasted for the rest of the season. The Delaware State girls’s lacrosse crew completed the 2024 season 2-13 total and 2-8 of their first season within the Northeast Convention.
Jenkins finally can be dismissed as effectively, however mother and father allege that “housecleaning” is going down with present gamers. They are saying the varsity’s athletics director “proceeded to alter scholarship allotments for lots of the gamers—unannounced to them, and half methods.”
“The AD (Shields-Gadson) is attempting to wash home with all the present gamers and begin over from scratch and take away present gamers’ scholarships, which is absurd,” one other guardian mentioned, including that Shields-Gadson is “attempting guilty the women for what occurred this season.”
As of Friday, the ladies’s lacrosse head coach place is listed as “to be introduced” on the Delaware State athletics web site.
