“A few times during which I had voiced some concerns to Coach Kevin, I was removed from the floor captain role for the following game without notice,” Emily wrote in her document.
Fitzgerald and Mattox said they both considered quitting the team several times before their dismissals. Fitzgerald said that, during her time in the program, she — and other teammates — would cry in Connole’s office, feeling “distraught and confused and so defeated and misunderstood.”