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Poster: J.R.
Subject: RE: Should my coach be fired for this????
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this lead to some pain in my leg because of the rapid increase in intensity and volume. I ran with it as much as I could but eventually I had to confront my coach about it.


This doesn't make sense. "Eventually" you "had to" "confront" your coach about it?

How about just telling him right away. How about realizing right away you were hurt and to not keep doing something that would keep making it worse. If you were hitting your thumb with a hammer, would you keep doing it regardless that it was hurting your thumb?

I told him that I thought I should go see the trainers and he responded by saying “if you go see the trainers then I will kick you off the team”. This is essentially a threat but I had to oblige because I did not want to be kicked off the team.


You told him. He didn't agree. At that point it's up to you to do what is best for you, regardless of anyone else. Not everyone in the world is going to agree with you (some people even don't agree with me at times). It's up to you to decide what is best for you and your life.

Being a freshman I did not know what power my coach had, so this put me in a difficult position.


Right, but lesson learned. All the power for your life is with you, not anyone else.

I kept running on the injury and it got worse and worse.


Your fault. Not anyone else's.

Finally, once it got bad enough I went to the trainers who took me out for the season. I ended up getting diagnosed with compartment syndrome by a doctor and had to have surgery to release all four compartments in my leg. Since this time I have not been able to run competitively because of the reoccurring injuries caused by the surgery. Should my coach be fired for this behavior? Or should it require more than one incident like this?


It was entirely your doing, your decision to go to doctors and have the surgery on your leg, which IMO was stupid.

Having the surgery had absolutely NOTHING to do with your coach. The coach didn't tell you to go to any doctors and didn't tell you to have surgery. YOU decided that. It was and is YOUR responsibility.
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