Huntington Uni drama

I think it's great if those with big platforms bring attention to this story but it's kind of ridiculous and weird to expect them to respond how you want them to respond and creepily following for their response. Not everyone can be aware of everything all the time or have an immediate reply. It's also seems like you might be somewhat bitter and resentful towards the people you named if they don't reply how you want. None of those people have done anything to indicate they are terrible people except if they don't meet whatever arbitrary standards you have established for their response. Says more about you than them.

can't help but think this makes addy riley's decommitment to boulder and decision to stay being coached by lauren and going to huntington incredibly suspicious... I hope she was not a victim of the johnsons' abuse

Just read all 33 pages. I don’t know what repercussions the school will face, but whatever those repercussions are certainly won’t be enough.

Shut it all down. NAIA do the right thing and allow all athletes to transfer immediately. No runner should wear a HU singlet for the foreseeable future.

Incredibly gross, unbelievably sad, and absolutely evil. The women athletes that came forward are so brave. I hope they are able to find peace and closure.

I hate to do so with such a young athlete, but it most definitely makes you question her recent success because of her association with the Johnsons. Her recent drop in times might be too good to be true.

“Stay being coached by Lauren AND Nick”.

The rumors we’ve heard over the past year turned out to be true. Nick has continued to coach the team the whole time.

I believe it will make national news before tomorrow. It also appears the current track cosh has deactivated all his social media pages. I'm sure the heads of the university are meeting with legal council and won't make a statement until they get the green light.

As a close competitor to Huntington, I would like to see their program suspended immediately.

I see we are already deleting posts in this thread to protect who knows what, god the mods suck around here.

Yes, I admit the "I will be watching them" shtick was totally creepy, and I'm not going to actually be trolling them that hard.

That being said, the running community has a tendency to shout platitudes and get real SJW when it's easy but when a big story hits, there is a whole lot of silence.

I hope that's not the case here.

In my opinion, every athletic program at Huntington needs to be suspended immediately.

When the entire athletic department is “accused” of covering up information regarding doping and sexual assault, you shut the whole thing down. I would love to believe that this is an isolated incident only impacting the XC/Track team, but these are MAJOR accusations that affect every athletic program at the university.

The university should not earn a single cent of revenue from sporting events while this is going on. The athletic department is at best incompetent, and at worst truly evil. Obviously I’m an outsider looking in, but I can almost guarantee every athlete at the university is being questioned by law enforcement right now. I highly doubt the XC team is gearing up for some crappy invite this weekend.

As somebody who will never compete with Huntington in any way, shape, or form; I would like to see their program suspended immediately.

Just finished the IndyStar article. Firstly, huge props to Stoffel for being brave enough to say all that she did publicly. There's a ton of stuff in that article that made me squirm just reading it.

Secondly, I don't automatically assume all accusations are true, but the fact that this coach kidnapped a high schooler by pretending to be a recruiter for Oregon and got off with a slap on the wrist makes me think that everything in that article is true, and everything we find out after this is only going to make it worse.

Lots of support for this Nick early on in this thread, sadly.

I don't know how you let any athletic program at HU keep competing period. If the administration is that bad when there's already a spotlight on them, imagine what else could be going on with the other sports. It sucks for the athletes that did nothing wrong but you might as well just clean house and suspend their department for a year or two.

I’d beat that sorry excuse for a person an inch to death if I saw him right now. Doesn’t deserve to walk on this earth if you take advantage of the underage

The coaches have clearly brainwashed the current athletes. Multiple posting the coaches have done nothing wrong, was the kidnapping case not enough to open their eyes? Scary stuff going on there.

Yeah and it looks like some of the athletes there are still supporting him…

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Posted in another thread. Just checked and can confirm it’s her newest IG story at the current time. Incredibly sad.

It’s a literal cult. Get these people out of the sport.