Former Virginia Tech Women’s Soccer Player Suing Coach After She Was Forced Off College Soccer Team For Refusing to Kneel

 

Kiersten Hening

A former Virginia Tech soccer player is suing her former coach after she was forced off the team for refusing to kneel in a pregame SJW-BLM demonstration last September.

Kiersten Hening, 21, claimed in her lawsuit that she was benched and bereted for her political views and forced off the team because she didn’t want to take a knee for BLM Marxists.

TMZ Sports reported that Hening’s former head coach, Charles Adair, verbally attacked her, pointed a finger “directly in her face” and denounced her for “‘bitching and moaning,’ for being selfish and individualistic, and for ‘doing her own thing.'”

Hening said in her lawsuit that she “supports social justice and believes that black lives matter,” but claimed she “does not support BLM the organization.”

Via TMZ Sports:

Hening claims many of her teammates knelt before their match with Virginia during a reading of a “unity statement” … but she remained standing, and insists she was ultimately singled out for it.

Hening says at halftime of the game, Adair unloaded on her, claiming he “verbally attacked her.”

Hening says Adair continued to target her in the ensuing days with verbal rants, and ultimately benched her. She says things got so “intolerable that she felt compelled” to eventually leave the team.

Hening is now suing for undisclosed damages claiming her constitutional rights have been violated. She also wants the judge to order Adair to get training on the First Amendment and let her back on the team.

Hening had been one of the best players on Virginia Tech’s squad … she started 19 games as a true freshman in 2018 and 18 more as a sophomore in 2019.

She said in her suit she had “played more minutes than any other player on the team” entering the 2020 season.