Dont read this if you dont want to hear a sob story. . Let’s talk about how coach-athlete abuse isn’t talked about enough. Alot of girls including myself never had parents that support their athletic dream weather it be emotionally, financially, or they just dont know how because they were never athletes. Understanding your body’s limits sometimes don’t match your passion is something I had to LEARN on my own AND THEN overcome. So many girls push their body’s through pain because if they don’t they’ll ridicule themselves or be ridiculed by their coach or even a parent. To an extent this is okay. But to the point where you will have lasting effects its not. It’s sick that it’s normalized. Coaches do this as a benifit to their program, as a way to keep their starters on the court, to protect their reputation, and I understand that from an outsiders POV, but from an insiders POV… when you wake up in the morning crying because you can’t walk and then you have to put 5lbs of tape on whilst still crying to your trainer so you can suck it up and practice for two hours kills passion. It diminishes hope for the quality of people in the vb community. For someone who stayed loyal to one club for 8 years and decided to switch my senior year. Trust your gut. Get away from those people that are draining the love, those abusive coaches that are great people off the court but don’t know how to give any sort of positive criticism. I still to this day have pain in that ankle because I was pushed to play on it too soon. To my girls in college,,, trust that transfer portal. Its scary and its hard work especially if you have no help from the previous school. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY learn your body. Learn how to respect others while outting yourself first. Learn how to have faith that God will bring you to the right places at the right time. That it will all work out.
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