Exposing administrators’ and athletic department’s ridiculing sheds light on how vicious the effort to silence pro-women voices has become.
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Affectionately called the “hippie love coach” by her athletes, Kim Russell once thought she’d fit in perfectly as Oberlin College’s head women’s lacrosse coach. That’s why she was shocked when one of her players flagged a personal Instagram post she made in support of women’s sports to Oberlin’s athletic director. That action triggered a series of lengthy disciplinary meetings and a full-fledged character assassination campaign against her.
During these meetings, Russell was gaslit, chastised into silence, and pressured to express remorse for her beliefs that women’s sports are for female athletes.
Russell secretly recorded every one of these meetings and is revealing Oberlin’s attempt to silence her in an exclusive documentary with Independent Women’s Forum.
“Unfortunately, you fall into a category of people that are filled with hate in the world,” said one administrator.
Russell bravely refused to apologize for supporting women-only athletics and is disappointed that a liberal-minded campus would rather force adults into a one-sided worldview than engage in conversation.
Still at risk of being fired, Russell says that defending the integrity of women’s sports and exposing the college for trying to silence her is worth it.
“It's acceptable to have your own opinions, but when they go against your college's beliefs, it's a problem. For your employment,” said another administrator.
At IW, we’ve made it our mission to spread the stories of female athletes who have lost roster spots, scholarships, or other opportunities. Kim Russell is the first active collegiate head coach to step forward and share how college and university administrators are working overtime to protect the ability of men to compete with and against women.
Watch Kim’s story and please help us SPREAD IT FAR AND WIDE so that the public can peek behind the curtains and see how aggressively college administrators will push their employees to adhere to dogmatic ideology at the expense of fairness and freedom of thought.
Sincerely,
Andrea Mew
Documentary Producer
Storytelling Coordinator
