Texas Tech's Women's Hoops Coach Fired, Allegations Of Toxic Culture & 'Torture'
by Larry Leo
August 7, 202019 Comments
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Texas Tech fired women's basketball head coach Marlene Stollings on Thursday after multiple former players claimed she created a toxic culture and was straight-up "evil and manipulative."
quote:One of Stollings' assistant coaches, Nikita Lowry Dawkins, has also been fired on Friday.
More than 10 ex-Red Raiders made the allegations in a USA TODAY report this week ... with some saying Stollings was so abusive, they described some of her acts as "torture."
Several of the women claim Stollings (who took the head coaching job in 2018) and her staff berated them constantly, calling players things like "trash," "disgusting" and "fat pig."
Other former players say Stollings forced them to play through injuries ... and even developed a heart rate monitoring system for games in which players were punished if they dipped below a certain level for just a few minutes.
Things were allegedly so bad, 12 of 21 players had left the program over the past 2 years -- including 7 recruited under Stollings.
One ex-Red Raider, Emma Merriweather, says during a meeting with Stollings' strength and conditioning coach ... she was forced to step on a scale and then berated over her weight.
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