WORCESTER (MA)
New York Daily News
BY DAREH GREGORIAN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2013
A Manhattan student says she was “verbally, emotionally and physically” abused while playing for the women’s college basketball team in Massachusetts.
In papers filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, Ashley Cooper says the abuse by revered College of the Holy Cross head coach Bill Gibbons was so severe that she walked away from a full scholarship to the school earlier this year just to get away from him.
“Cooper and other players suffered a loss of self-esteem and a loss of their love of the game of basketball” as a result of Gibbons’ tirades, her court filings say.
Cooper says she was recruited to play for Holy Cross after a standout career playing for the Rumson-Fairhaven team in high school in New Jersey.
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