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Brandeis softballers prep claws for real world
Posted on September 5, 2006 10:43 AM
"We didn't mean to get the coach fired, I mean, we meant for her to get fired, we didn't mean for her to find out we caused it."
Thirty-two years as a softball coach for women preparing for careers in the corporate world should have made Mary Sullivan a little more wary of her players.
Maybe 32 years in her job made her complacent. Too bad for Coach, especially since her ladies were right behind her...with sharp knives drawn...
Although Sousa declined to comment on the nature of Sullivan's departure, players said she was fired after numerous complaints they lodged last spring.They didn't mean to get the coach sacked, either...
"We weren't [complaining] with the intention of getting [Sullivan] fired," leftfielder Marissa Rubin '07 said. "We were just looking for some things to change."
"As a team, we all want to have a winning season, and it becomes frustrating to lose games the same way over and over," Rubin said. "There were obvious mistakes that were being repeated over and over, and we just got sick of it."
"No one was going in there maliciously, like, 'let's get her fired," Schimmel said. "We were all really shocked when it happened."And worse, the coach just didn't regard their poor little feelings...
"When you take a test and get the same answer wrong every time you take it for three years, you're doing something wrong," Rubin said. "We just needed a change to the program."
"Softball has changed so much since Coach Sullivan played," [Schimmel] said. "She was a little bit behind in her methods. We want to be a breakout team."
"Our team would hardly receive any criticism or praise," Mayer said. "Even though we're at a college level, sometimes we need criticism and sometimes we need help."Yeah, you'll get plenty of feedback and support in the real world. Just have your passport to Magic Unicorn World handy and make sure the sylvan elf at the gate to the realm stamps it when you get there.
Otherwise no praise for you. Criticism we can arrange.
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