Toughen up snowflake! Sports coaches can be emotionally abusive – here's how to recognise it
- Written by Chris Zehntner, Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, Southern Cross University
Emotional abuse, which includes humiliation and intimidation, is rampant in coaching culture.from shutterstock.com
Sports coaches have been in the headlines recently for all the wrong reasons. At the end of 2018, the University of Maryland investigated a football coach for intimidation, humiliation and verbal abuse. This followed a player dying of...