Andrew Eastmond: Don't let youth soccer club owner Rory Dames off the hook

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Andrew Eastmond: Don't let youth soccer club owner Rory Dames off the hook
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Commentary: How can Rory Dames, the focus of extensive allegations of sexual, verbal and emotional abuse, be banned from the National Women’s Soccer League but still own a suburban Chicago club with only temporary restrictions on coaching youth players?

but still own suburban Chicago club Eclipse Select with only temporary restrictions on coaching vulnerable youth players? It’s a tale of parents willfully putting college scholarships before their children’s welfare, U.S. Soccer avoiding liability for yearslong knowledge of Dames’ abuse, the U.S. Center for SafeSport failing to perform its designed role and the president of the elite league Eclipse plays in having a close relationship with Dames.

Here’s what parents of Eclipse players are overlooking. Yates, a former U.S. deputy attorney general who conducted the abuse investigation commissioned by U.S. Soccer, notes that a study of 2021 Red Stars players found that “70% of players reported concerning behaviors that are consistent with the generally accepted definition of emotional abuse in sport.” In their

demanding owner Arnim Whisler sell the club, Red Stars players “ the countless current and former Red Stars who suffered verbal and emotional abuse at the hands of Rory Dames.”was an assistant coach at a Division I school. She told me her head coach remarked that he would stop recruiting Eclipse players, despite having many on the roster then.

Similarly, Yates says in her report: “We also heard from a player who played for Dames multiple years at both CRS and the Eclipse: ‘the verbal and emotional abuse way worse at the youth level.’” Yates also asserts: “Multiple players stated that they are now suffering from mental health issues requiring therapy as a result of Dames’ abuse.” All this is happening in a society in whichU.S.

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