![]() Interviews, emails, letters, confidential university documents and recordings also show that players, their parents, and at least three university employees have repeatedly complained or raised concerns about Gonazelez’s coaching methods and alleged abusive behavior to Gawlik, university administration officials and the school’s Office of Civil Rights and Investigations. “Through many abusive behaviors, Coach Gonzales and his staff perpetuate a culture of harassment, bullying, and belittling,” a current Idaho starter wrote on behalf of her teammates in a formal complaint to the university obtained by SCNG. USA Gymnastics finds ‘disturbing’ abuse by Azarian coaches but opts for training instead of suspensions.Nearly 2 years after abuse complaints against Anna Li and Jiani Wu, SafeSport still hasn’t interviewed the coaches.UC Berkeley swimmers allege coach Teri McKeever bullied and verbally abused them for years.USA Volleyball suspends beach icon Sinjin Smith.Former Cal swimming coach Teri McKeever suspended.In interviews, letters, emails, formal complaints, confidential university documents and voice recordings of Gonzalez, athletic director Terry Gawlik, and other athletic department and university administration officials, the players allege that Gonzalez, a longtime fixture on the Southern California volleyball scene and once considered one of the college game’s rising coaching stars, has created an environment where he targets specific players for almost daily bullying and even physical abuse, where players suffered dozens of avoidable injuries from overtraining or because he ignored the instructions of doctors, trainers and a sports biomechanics expert, withheld food from the team to the point where all nine current and former players said they were constantly hungry and routinely played and practiced while feeling light-headed or dizzy, suffered tunnel vision, and often felt that they were on the verge of passing out or blacking out. UPDATE: Idaho exands investigation into volleyball coach Chris Gonzalez national team coach, outlined to the Southern California News Group by six Idaho players on the 2023 roster, three former players, and a university employee, who allege Gonzalez physically abused and bullied players, pressured injured players to play and train against the orders of the school’s sports medicine staff, regularly deprived players of food on road trips, body shamed players, made racially insensitive and inappropriate comments to players, and pressured sports medicine staff to share confidential information about players’ weight. The incident is part of a pattern of alleged abuse by Gonzalez, a former U.S. As soon as it happened everybody on the court looked at each other like, ‘Did he really just do that?’ We all just froze.” “He said, ‘Move!’ and just pushed her, like completely just pushed her over,” Morris said. “Like physically in a very, bullying way, he literally told her to move and then pushed her and she fell to the floor. “He physically pushed a player,” said Travel Morris, an Idaho middle blocker who participated in the drill. ![]() When the drill still didn’t go as Gonzalez expected, he shoved a player over, knocking her to the ground, according to five people. Finally, Gonzalez kicked a player out of the drill and took her place. Gonzalez, hired only weeks earlier, was frustrated and then enraged with how a drill was proceeding in a practice in the spring of 2022, according to five people familiar with the incident. It was the first time Chris Gonzalez left the women volleyball players he was coaching at the University of Idaho speechless. ![]()
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