University of Houston Women's Soccer Team players develop rhabdomyolosis after "punishment workout"

[crimycarny]

Wow, just saw this article today. The punishment workout actually happened on 2/2018 but there was a report on this released June 14, 2019. The University of Houston women's soccer team was subjected to a punishment workout because 2 players ate some food meant for the football team (yes, seriously--that was their crime). They were exercised so harshly that 12 developed rhabdomyolysis--a serious condition that can result in renal failure. One player was hospitalized for 5 days. How is the Head Coach still coaching? The strength and training coach was fired, but it was the head coach who admitted in an email that he uses "physical punishment". In fact, "physical punishment" was in the Women's Soccer Team manual.

"Players were scared: The player said Bocanegra uttered obscenities as many struggled. “Get up, Get the F up. This is your fault. Get up,' just, like, over and over again,” she said. She said the team was too fearful to speak up. "No one was going to say anything. Everyone was so scared." The workout lasted for nearly an hour and the player said she felt “tortured almost” afterward."

[link:https://www.click2houston.com/news/a-dozen-uh-women-soccer-players-sidelined-with-serious-medical-condition-called-rhabdo|

The athletic director, Mike Pezman, refused to be interviewed.

[2naSalit]

1. I'd be suing those assholes for everything they're worth

and ever going to have.

[MarcA]

2. Another example of sicko Authoritarian Culture. n/t

[JudyM]

19. 'Zactly. And let's not omit the key: *male* authoritarian. In this case, punishing women.

Wouldn’t be sexist, though.

[LisaL]

3. Well, you know how important football is to the University.

So of course if you eat their food, you got to be punished severely.

[musette_sf]

10. and we're talking the Cougar High football team here

not UT or even A&M

[Crunchy Frog]

4. A good Youtube video about rhabdomyolosis.

[ProudLib72]

7. This scared the crap out of me

Because I did a weightlifting workout once and couldn't straighten my arms for a week. I'm beginning to think I had rhabdomyolysis.

[barbtries]

13. you well may have.

if you didn't consult a doctor you wouldn't have had a name for what ailed you.

[crimycarny]

15. Scary!

Thanks for the link. That is so scary!

[Celerity]

5. classy coach

[Blue Owl]

6. Sick fuck soccer coach

Fire that sicko!

[paleotn]

8. If it were my daughter....

said coach would be wise to watch his back. Some here may be offended at that, consider the threat of violence no better than what the coach did, or consider me sexist, but in my mind, when it comes to daughters, that dog just won't hunt. Sorry, I'm southern. It's hard wired.

[Corgigal]

12. I'm thinking along the same lines.

Or, we can share a ride to go find this asshole and blanket Party him. He looks like a might over right kind of guy.

He's a sadist.

[crimycarny]

18. Me too

My daughter will be starting college in the fall and she will be playing for the women's soccer team. A couple of things I've learned since have got me even angrier. First of all, an investigation found emails that the dipsh*t trainer had sent to himself which included links to articles on Rhabdo, suggesting he had no idea what it was. Secondly, in my own research about rhabdo every article mentions it is very rare. Yet 12 girls on that soccer team developed rhabdo. TWELVE!!! Seriously, that whole coaching staff needs to be fired--immediately. Not only were these girls almost exercised to death, but the coach was screaming obscenities to them during the whole workout. Fire his *ss!!!

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/variety-of-causes-can-be-at-root-of-rhabdomyolysis/

[pazzyanne]

9. "The athletic director, Mike Pezman, refused to be interviewed."

Gee, I wonder why?

[DFW]

11. In a state with as many guns as Texas

I'd not want to be the head coach. The longer he remains unindicted, the more he remains a target for revenge.

[Poiuyt]

14. This is the old-fashioned football mentality

The philosophy in sports used to be no pain, no gain. Luckily, that has changed to a more scientific approach. Apparently though, this coach is stuck in the 1950s.

[cwydro]

16. Sorry, but do kids today not have any free will?

I was involved with sports my entire young life. I would have walked off of that kind of thing in a heartbeat.

Wtf?

[Celerity]

17. Huge pressure to not lose your scholarship, plus there is the whole authority figure mentality

that is so present in group American sports.

It is sick.

[kcr]

20. Right. Totally the kids' fault.

Not the professionals who should know better to not abuse them.

[xmas74]

21. College level

These are scholarship kids. If they walk out they lose the scholarship.

[Codeine]

22. I remember in high school

the tennis team had to run with the cross country kids twice a week to build our match endurance. They would run us in the hot Southern California sun until we puked, literally. After a few weeks we simply refused and ran shorter distances before walking back on our own.

We didn’t, of course, have a scholarship hanging over our heads the way these ladies did.