Heard about hazing incident at DC United U15 Boys DA Team

[Anonymous]

I heard there's currently an investigation into a hazing incident at DC United U15 DA Boys team and all P2P sessions are suspended for the time being. Anyone else heard of this?

[Anonymous]

Anyone? I was sending my DS to training with them. Are coaches involved?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone? I was sending my DS to training with them. Are coaches involved?

Yes that definitely happened. Our club is not sending our players to train with them at this time.

[Anonymous]

Seems no one has any experience with this.

[Anonymous]

Or direct knowledge

[Anonymous]

Not really hazing. More like just plain bullying. Big kids ganging up on small kids. It was happening on trips, in the hotel rooms. Coaches didn't know. When they found out, the players who were doing it were kicked off the team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not really hazing. More like just plain bullying. Big kids ganging up on small kids. It was happening on trips, in the hotel rooms. Coaches didn't know. When they found out, the players who were doing it were kicked off the team.

Verbal or physical or sexual ?

[Anonymous]

Sounds like stuff that has happened on youth sports teams since the dawn of time if it was simple bullying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not really hazing. More like just plain bullying. Big kids ganging up on small kids. It was happening on trips, in the hotel rooms. Coaches didn't know. When they found out, the players who were doing it were kicked off the team.

Verbal or physical or sexual ?

Sexual? O.o calm down, probably a wedgie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like stuff that has happened on youth sports teams since the dawn of time if it was simple bullying.

Is bullying really "simple"? it ruins a kid's team experience - even if it's the subtle ways like excluding them socially or even isolating them on the field when a player won't pass the ball.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not really hazing. More like just plain bullying. Big kids ganging up on small kids. It was happening on trips, in the hotel rooms. Coaches didn't know. When they found out, the players who were doing it were kicked off the team.

Verbal or physical or sexual ?

Sexual? O.o calm down, probably a wedgie

The first PP is referring to a grave incident at a local high school were male students were raped in the locker room by other male students and the incident was called "hazing" at first.

[Anonymous]

Rape is very rare, why is that even coming up?

Most sports team related “bullying” is simple and common when growing up. Thinking otherwise is foolish. Bullying even goes on in office environments with “grown adults,” why in the world would someone think it doesn’t happen in youth environments?

If you didn’t see or experience some form of bullying when playing youth sports, congrats, you are the anomaly. Hell, even today DD is aware of the verbal bullying going on with her team and older kids.

We need to stop babying our kids. Especially DA kids, where the stakes are higher.

[Anonymous]

Sounds to me that it was more serious than run of the mill bullying. For P2P to be suspended and clubs not sending players, it was a bigger deal than not passing a teammate the ball, socially excluding a kid, or name calling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not really hazing. More like just plain bullying. Big kids ganging up on small kids. It was happening on trips, in the hotel rooms. Coaches didn't know. When they found out, the players who were doing it were kicked off the team.

Verbal or physical or sexual ?

Sexual? O.o calm down, probably a wedgie

The first PP is referring to a grave incident at a local high school were male students were raped in the locker room by other male students and the incident was called "hazing" at first.

They were raped with broomsticks I believe in that incident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not really hazing. More like just plain bullying. Big kids ganging up on small kids. It was happening on trips, in the hotel rooms. Coaches didn't know. When they found out, the players who were doing it were kicked off the team.

Verbal or physical or sexual ?

Sexual? O.o calm down, probably a wedgie

The first PP is referring to a grave incident at a local high school were male students were raped in the locker room by other male students and the incident was called "hazing" at first.

They were raped with broomsticks I believe in that incident.

Let me clarify—that was the high school football incident. I have no idea what happened with DCU incident.