HIGHLAND HEIGHTS (KY)
Odyssey
March 25, 2019
By Taryn M. Taugher
The emotional abuse by current head coach has lasting effects on its players. But, it ends here.
There is a deep, dark, hidden secret that lies within the women’s basketball program at Northern Kentucky University which has been swept under the rug by the athletic department for three years.
“The mission of NKU Athletics is to advance the University’s vision while focusing on the wellbeing of our student-athletes as we prepare and empower each of them for academic and competitive success at NKU and beyond.” This is quoted right from the NKU Athletic Department’s Mission Statement, but apparently, this doesn’t apply to the student athlete’s mental well-being.
Emotional abuse is defined as any abusive behavior that isn’t physical, which may include verbal aggression, intimidation, manipulation, and humiliation, which most often unfolds as a pattern of behavior over time that aims to diminish another person’s identity, dignity, and self-worth, and which often results in anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts or behaviors (Crisistextline.org).
Northern Kentucky University’s athletic department seems to be willing to do anything to silence the multiple emotional abuse allegations against current women’s basketball coach, Camryn Whitaker.
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