Former VA Tech football player slams politicization of post-law sports win after kneeling controversy from BLM
A former Virginia Tech football player who scored a winning streak appeared legal against her former coach on Tuesday, claiming he benched her for refusing to kneel to support her. The Black Lives Matter movement.
Kiersten Hening took her coach to court after he allegedly berated her in front of her teammates and removed her from the Hokies’ starting lineup, prompting her to leave the team and go to court on First Amendment grounds, “The Ingraham Angle” reports. She allegedly refused to kneel during a pre-match “statement of unity”.
In the wake of her $100,000 settlement, Henning said,Ingraham angle“That politics of any kind had no place in sport, and that she didn’t feel right to be asked to kneel in such a way.
“Personally, I didn’t feel like I needed to kneel in order to support something,” she said. “I personally felt like I could stand up and support something.”
EX-VIRGINIA TECH FOOTBALL PLAYER ALLEGED TO QUIT FOR KNEE FLIGHT AND WINS $100K SETTLEMENT: ATTORNEY
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“Personally, I think kneeling was very synonymous with Colin Kaepernick The movement and the BLM movement, and I didn’t feel the need for that.”
Coach Henning said Charles Adair She was so cruel when he called her out on the heels of her refusal to take a knee.
“It just didn’t feel right… I kind of did my job, and you know, I was there for the love of the game and the love of the school,” she said. “For me, wearing that jersey meant a lot to me, and it was very hard for me to be like that.”
Ingraham read a statement from Adair that said in part that he was “delighted with the case against her.” [him] and was closed [he is] Free to move on, free from any wrongdoing.”
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Adair’s statement: “It was hard not being able to tell the story on my part. The people I care about and whose opinions matter to me know the truth. They know that my coaching decisions are based solely on getting our team in a position to win.” Follow up, according to Ingraham.
Implicit in Adair’s statement, Ingraham said, was the claim that she was “not good enough” to begin with — and asked Henning what she thought.
Henning replied, “I don’t think that’s accurate.” No, I think the numbers speak for themselves.
In that sense, I think [the judge] She said, “It summed it up perfectly. I think I averaged 74 minutes my freshman year and 88 minutes my sophomore year, so there was definitely a significant drop in playing time without a real explanation as to why.”
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Henning said she found it unfortunate that politics was sometimes brought into the sport.
“It’s unfortunate that the political climate that’s created in college sports — not even college sports, but just everywhere, you know, puts such pressure on athletes who — I personally don’t believe in politics anywhere in sports,” she said. .