Can't believe that out of all these descriptions of ego-crazed coaches and parents out of control, the discussion has focused on one girl who stands up for herself.
Was she smarting off? We don't know unless we were there. IMO, coaches who repeatedly humiliate their players or their teams deserve to be told off -- and deserve to have girls quit on them.
Was her reaction appropriate? Again, we don't know.
But my point is, it might have been.
I too was at the tourney in Elyria a couple of weekends ago, and I saw some *awful* stuff. *I* was about to tell one coach to shut the hayull up, and I didn't know a single soul on his team.
It *IS* a game -- not a test of manhood for middle-aged, pencil-membered nobodies to exercise their fantasies of power and domination on adolescent girls, whether the nobodies in question are coaches, umps or parents.