http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130506/NEWS10/305060068

 

Two sisters allege abuse. Transfer to Ballard. KHSAA says they are ineligible for lack of proof. Courts step in and say they can play.

 

Coach is the daughter of the PRP baseball coach. She allegedly hit former star Zack Osborne in the face.

From the Article:

 

The lawsuit, filed Thursday, claims an assistant PRP softball coach grabbed one of the girls after an at-bat during a game and screamed at her that she was “**** stupid,” (the **** appeared in the article) then asked her “what the hell was wrong” with her.

 

Another student with attention-deficit disorder left the team because of derogatory comments made by head coach Megan Miller, according to the suit. An e-mail from that child’s mother claims she complained to the athletic director about Miller’s conduct.

 

The suit includes an e-mail allegedly from Troy Osborne, Zach’s father, who claimed Miller cursed his son and “took a full swing and hit Zach across the face.”

 

Doug Mercer claims that after they complained to Johnson about the abuse, the principal told them “if he didn’t like what was going on in the school or on the field, Mr. Johnson would march him down the hall, sign him and his daughters out and they could go wherever they wanted,” according to the findings from the KHSAA.

 

Johnson testified to the KHSAA that he “took offense” at the charges and he would never tolerate a coach putting their hands on a player, according to a summary of his testimony. Johnson said that after Mercer failed to submit the proper paperwork to transfer and failed to achieve a bonafide change of residence, they “fell back to the charge of bullying in an effort to obtain eligibility for their daughters at Ballard.”

While I have no information on this particular case at all, is it possible that the allegations were a screen to gain eligibility? I suppose I'm a bit jaded on that front.

While I have no information on this particular case at all, is it possible that the allegations were a screen to gain eligibility? I suppose I'm a bit jaded on that front.

 

Based on the KHSAA's ruling one could speculate the KHSAA maybe thought the same thing.

Does the KHSAA ever go against the word/testimony of an administrator of a member school?

Does the KHSAA ever go against the word/testimony of an administrator of a member school?

 

No idea but it does appear the KHSAA does a much better job of picking their battles than they did just a few years ago.

So much could be said about this, but I will refrain.

So much could be said about this, but I will refrain.

 

All we are looking for is the truth?

So much could be said about this, but I will refrain.

Then what's the point of posting at all? Let er fly.

Then what's the point of posting at all? Let er fly.

 

Sometimes its not that easy, when you know information but can not post it. I don't know anything about this, but I get where Heavy Duty is coming from.

The allegations that she also hit the baseball player tends to lend weight to the girls claims in my mind. I think the KHSAA would have been better suited to grant the waiver and let this one go.

The allegations that she also hit the baseball player tends to lend weight to the girls claims in my mind. I think the KHSAA would have been better suited to grant the waiver and let this one go.

 

After a quick read of the article it sounds like the KHSAA is standing on principle and the waiver request in question failed to reach the necessary threshold of evidence.

So much could be said about this, but I will refrain.

 

Send it to me in a pm and I will send it out...I ain't scared!

After a quick read of the article it sounds like the KHSAA is standing on principle and the waiver request in question failed to reach the necessary threshold of evidence.

 

Exactly, he said, she said.

Exactly, he said, she said.

 

Trying to be fair here, it looks as if the parents needed to make a more persuasive case for the waiver. In other words, maybe the "facts" of the case are horrible, but that doesn't mean those facts satisfy the waiver request.