Aberdeen Football Coach Targets Football Player For Transferring To Montesano While His Mother Battled Cancer
This whole thing of the Aberdeen football coach with Marcus, in all honesty, reminded me of my friend switching schools because of his dad being sick. People forget that students are living real lives at home.
Kimberley Hale Sones of Aberdeen wrote on Facebook about the conduct of the high-school football coach toward her son, Marcus, who had to change schools while Kim was battling cancer.
Two years back, Kimberley was fighting a tough battle against cancer. She was a single mother undergoing chemotherapy and radiation. Things became tough really fast, and Marcus started to have difficulty in school and on the football team. An understandable situation. I have seen my very own friend drift away when things at home became turbulent.
Kimberley felt that Marcus needed some more support from family. So the family agreed he would move in with his older brother and finish high school in Montesano. Indeed, this decision was made for his getting surrounded by some people while she recovered and went through her treatments.
Obviously, that didn’t sit well with the Aberdeen coach. He began texting Marcus, telling him he was disappointed. He even said Montesano had been scouting him, which was simply not true. Then came team meetings held by the coach to discuss next year’s plans without Marcus and the removal of all of Marcus’s game footage for colleges to see.
Marcus felt brokenhearted, having played alongside the same teammates since kindergarten. The entire time he was at Aberdeen, he had never caused any problems, never. Since preschool through junior year, he always stayed on the straight and narrow.
Then it took an ugly twist. Every year at Thanksgiving, the kids in town have a fun pickup football game at the Aberdeen field called the Turkey Bowl. It is not an organized school event; just family and friends hanging out.
This year, Marcus went home from college and went to play with his brother as he had always done, only to be told by the same coach that he could not set foot on the field. The reason: simply because Marcus transferred to Montesano while his mother was sick.
Kimberley wrote that her son gave everything to the school from preschool to junior year and remained loyal right up until his leaving. He never caused any problems.
She is upset that a grown man who is ostensibly a guide to students will choose to behave that way toward a student trying to keep his life together while his mom fought cancer.
Kimberley finished her post with the note that no coach should treat a kid like that during one of the hardest times in his life.
People instantly began rallying around her. One comment said he was a lousy coach and that there was shame in him. Jeanne Belden Galloway commented that this was not the kind of leadership a parent would wish for their child; rather, Marcus’s integrity was due to his family. You may also be interested in: 14 Year Old Football Player Haven Lemaire Assaulted in Lafayette During His Fathers Funeral
