Jennifer R
New member
...continuation of coaching? Our son plays on a small town little league organization (no affiliations..just a great group of volunteers from the community with now 150 children enrolled). The coach assigned to our son's team (seven and eight your old group) has two current injunctions for stalking restricting him to be within one city block of a woman for the next four years. We obtained public records from our county court records encompassing 58 pages of evidence which includes over twenty of his personal emails which are incredibly disturbing and display his emotional instability beyond words. We spoke to our members of the three person committee and asked that they review these records to discuss whether or not he continue coaching these children. The board specifically states in a letter sent to us that "what a person does in their personal life doesn't mean they aren't able to be a good coach. If they have interactions with police and restrictions placed for a court appointed judge, we can't ask him to stop coaching because we have no policy for that." We stuck to our guns, and refused to allow him to coach our eight year old son. We were told that if we refused to not play on his team, our son would be suspended off of a league (that he LIVES FOR, and has played on for three years). We personally knew of this man's actions via our own observations last summer with abnormal attempts to interact witih our own familiy despite my husband continuously asking him to stop calling our home and coming to our home when my husband would be out of town. It was horrible, but we don't want that to even have to be a factor based on our own experience. We feel that stalking women to such a horrible extreme can affect an adult's ability to be capable of truly teaching the most important part of lessons such as teamwork, respect and good behavior to others. If a man stands in front of young boys and girls responsible for modeling their standards, and then drives off of that field and makes over fifty calls a day to this woman, her family, and emails disgusting information obsessively, we feel this is a factor to be considered which is irrelevant to even being the very best coach in the world. We felt Jake's experience could be unhealthy and refused to allow this coach for our son. We received a letter suspending our child off of the league since we would not accept his placement on this team. My son is in misery. Our heart is breaking as parents. Please let us know your thoughts (pro or con). Many Thanks.