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How do I make this short? Megan and my daughter were teammates at a D3 Christian College. Presumably friends. Due to their coaches transfer to another college, Megan became the coach of the team my daughter’s fifth year. Prior to this Megan and my daughter were two of the best players on the team. In addition to other records, Megan held the home run record at 18. My daughter had 17 when the season began. Instead of utilizing my daughter‘s talent, she sat her on the bench for half the games of the season. My daughter finally broke the home run record (22) which was quite an accomplishment given she had 65 fewer at bats for her college career due to a season ending injury her 2nd yr and Covid ending the season her 3rd. The biggest insult, however, was in her final college game ever - her last opportunity to play on the field she had come to love - Megan sat her on the bench for BOTH games. What Megan did not realize at the time was that everyone (players, parents, school admin) saw what she did and lost respect for her as a Coach. Keep in mind that this was a Christian college where not only is the coach supposed to be a role model, but she is supposed to put petty jealousy aside. In the end, Character is far more important than winning games and Megan clearly failed in that department.

Review For: Megan Jenkerson

Great Coach! Jon knows what he's doing and really cares about his athletes.

Review For: Jonathan Woehl

I played for Rogers for two season and it was a nightmare. I don’t even know where to begin there was so much inappropriate behavior. He made it very clear his bottom line was winning and he would do anything to achieve his target record. My first year I wasn’t a starter so I don’t really think I had a full conversation with him the entire year. I was completely disregarded as a person. As a team we literally ran so many suicides the majority of us ended up with injuries from toenails falling to shin splints to even stress fractures. If anyone especially a starter got injured, they were pressured to return to the court much sooner than was healthy. Whatever suicides were missed counted as debt and had to be made up. If you missed three suicides five would be added to total eight in debt. If the team lost he would find any excuse to make the next practice a living hell. Every minute we were late to classes, practices, weights, or team meetings added suicides. One girl was .004 seconds late to class meaning we had to run. One time after a close loss girls took four steps towards the Chick-fil-A in front of him resulting in an extra 4 suicides. If we ordered before him, suicides. If we ate a single bite before him, suicides. If we didn’t fully clean the table, every piece of trash or straw wrapper resulted in suicides. The team especially freshmen lived in a constant state of fear because he had created such a toxic environment that the rest of the team would turn on anyone that added suicides to the bank even if it was for ridiculous reasons. The dress code was so strict. There were certain jackets shirts and water bottles meant for specific occasions that could result in extra running if worn wrong. The environment was military and cruel. I was only treated as a human being when I started my second season. There is so much more like him staring at our butts while we bear crawled and laughing when girls cried or puked. All the reviews before mine are true as well and I hope he gets fired. He doesn’t deserve any position around young women.

Review For: James Rogers

Coach was the kindest person that I have ever met, and he motivated all of us to reach our PRs. I would recommend him to any recruit that is interested in running for him.

Review For: Marshall Leonard

He gets a 10/10 for communicating! He communicated clearly, concisely and consistently to his players their lack of worth both on the basketball court and off. His inability to have empathy or understanding would also be categorized with a perfect score. Under his leadership mental health issues prospered and pinning player against player on the court and off was a common theme. Players being overly physical (punching her teammate in the face) was rewarded and called being “tough”.

Review For: Mike Brandt

Wrestling . Avoid this coach at all cost. She thinks she is god in basketball. She is an awful person and coach treats people around her like “crap”!

Review For: Lora Westling

Coach Leonard was very supportive and guided everyone on the team to new PRs and new school records.

Review For: Marshall Leonard

Least collaborative role model in over 30 years of coaching witnessed. Out for #1.

Review For: Dana Lockett

The team had more losses each year he was there. He blamed players for losses. He was not very professional, using profanity with players and rhrowing things whrn angry. He was decent at communicating information.

Review For: Nick Umbdenstock

OMG. This coach can really recruit but be aware that what is being offered might not be what you get. You might not play or travel. You won’t know this until you’ve already committed and reported. You won’t even know it during or after scrimmages. You won’t find out until you’re getting ready to play your first away game. This coach loves private meetings but you’re never have one to discuss how well or how poorly you’ve been performing. It’s just, bam, you’re not traveling or you’re on the travel roster. She never mentions during recruiting that there is a none travel roster and how she makes that determination. Then as time goes on, you realize that their is a culture on the team the favorites and none favorites. It’s terrible especially when it has nothing to do with skill or talent.

Review For: Gabrielle Houston