Coach knew & was in possession of paperwork. Injured girl has been bullied by others all season & afraid to say no. Girl was told by her dr that she was not to play if she was in any pain.
What do you mean she's been bullied all season? I'm probably gonna get my butt kicked on here for this but, from the "limited" information you've provided; I'm gonna put it off on the injured player, and here's why....I'm gonna assume you're talking about a Varsity program consisting of girls from 14 to 18 yrs old. So you have 8th graders that are nothing more than 1yr older to full grown women. She was given the choice by her doctor to play if she wasn't in pain. She played, so I have to assume that she wasn't in pain. If for some other reason she played and shouldn't have and she was "affraid" to say she couldn't then she obviously wasn't mentally tough enough to be in a Varsity program. You never did say if we were dealing with a freshman or upperclassman. So what I've outlined is my assumption that she is a freshman playing with a team full of upperclassman. Now on the flip side of this, if she is a frosh on a JV or freshman team and she's letting herself get bullied and affraid to tell the coach she can't play, yes I said "letting herself get bullied", because bullies are cowards and easily dealt with, then she should consider giving up softball all together.
I know my post was a little harsh, but this sounds more like someone that has a problem with the HS coach, and using bits and pieces of a situation to get sympathy for a player at the expense of the coach. The doctor didn't shut the girl down, they gave her the choice, so obviously it wasn't a season ending injury.
I know of a HS team out there right now that has an injured player playing right now. The doctor gave her the same instruction, you can play if there is no pain. The coach is ok with that, the parents are ok with that, the player is ok with that, and the doctor is ok with that. Well there is another parent with a player on the same team who's DD just so happens to be the backup to the girl who is injured. Which means she's ridding the bench. Well this parent went to the AD to try to get the coach fired for letting the injured girl, who is following her doctors orders; play. When that didn't work he went higher in an attempt to get the injured girl removed from the team because he was so concerned that she was going to injure herself further. What it boiled down to was getting this girl sidelined would mean that his DD would get to play!
So IMHO the story on this thread has a odd similar smell to it. My point is that posting situations on here and giving very limited details doesn't give us a far shot at giving good advise. Especially when HS sports are involved, because there a alot of parents out there that will do whatever they can to gain some sort of advantage on a coach and then dangle it over his/her head all year long. I will go one step farther and blame the parents because if they were concerned about their DD well being they should have shut her down themselves. Even more so because they knew she was being bullied all season and was affraid to say no. Their daughter is a minor so the parents can speak for her. As for the AD being mia, when they finally talk to him/her that's exactly what I would tell them. If you're daughter shouldn't have been playing, then you as "GOOD" parents should have made sure that didn't happen.