WHS Soccer Coach suspended with pay for the rest of the season

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Coach Quentin Myers is out for the season following a controversial issue involving a player at an after game practice.

In a split decision the Washington Community School Board voted in favor of the School Superintendent’s recommendation to suspend High School Boys Soccer Coach Quentin Myers for the remainder of the season. The suspension was the result of a player becoming ill and hospitalized for dehydration following an after-game practice earlier this month.  The coach had been on suspension since the incident.

In a special meeting Thursday, at a packed school corporation office meeting room, the school board waived their policy of not allowing comments concerning personnel and heard from three people supporting the coach including, former soccer coach and Quentin Myers’s father Kevin Myers.  He said he was mainly concerned with schools lack of  protocol with dealing with coaches.  He said he understood that the current coach had already been released and assumed this is now the protocol.

Former coach Myers and area coach and soccer alumni Joel McDonald both spoke of another incident recently of a player getting sick during conditioning practice.

 

In the end the board voted 5-2 to continue Myers suspension indefinately with pay. Board members Steve Bouchie and Peg Stephens voted against the recommendation to continue the suspension.