Clemson soccer player sues coaches and teammates over hazing incident
By Mike Marteny
Former Clemson women’s soccer player Haley Hunt has filed a lawsuit against Clemson soccer coach Eddie Radwanski, his assitants, and several former teammates over a hazing incident that occurred in 2011 when Hunt was a freshman according to Greenville Online.
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The whole list of people included in the lawsuit are coach Radwanski, former Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips, assistant coaches Siri Mullinix and Jeff Robbins, Associate Athletic Director Kyle Young, Marvin Carmichael an assistant to the president of the university, 10 other Clemson officials, and 14 members of the 2011 women’s soccer team.
The lawsuit alleges that on August 18, 2011, Hunt and fellow freshmen players were blindfolded and put into the trunks of automobiles. They were then ordered to get out at various stops to complete “humiliating and demeaning acts.”
Once the motorcade arrived at the team’s facility, Riggs Field, the players were spun around in circles to disorient them, and ordered to sprint down the field with the blindfolds still on.
This is where Hunt ran face first into a brick wall at full speed. The lawsuit states that Hunt, now a senior, “suffered severe and permanent personal injuries including a traumatic brain injury” from this incident.
The lawsuit also alleges that the hazing is “a mandatory team activity.”
Hunt was forced to quit the soccer team, allegedly because of the injuries sustained when she ran into the brick wall.
Clemson university is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit. All of its current and former employees are being sued as individuals in their capacity as Clemson employees.