One of the sports media sites in Poland published a long article on Thursday:
"Pamiętaj, że jesteś zerem". Mocne oskarżenia pod adresem znanego trenera - Sport WP SportoweFakty
Most of the top young basketball players spend at least some of their high school years in an sports school specifically to train them that was run by a coach who also coached at the youth national team level. I am not going to try to summarize it since it is a delicate matter and I cannot be sure that the web translation is perfect, but accounts range from verbal abuse to sexual misconduct by this one coach.
The original article did not include the player's actual names, but Anna's sister Ola decided to change that and was the first player to share publicly with this Facebook post:
Dzisiejszy dzień jest dla mnie dniem... - Aleksandra Makurat | Facebook
Anna then made her own Facebook post:
Ania Makurat - Piątek godzina 7:00 Czwartek był dniem... | Facebook
It sounds like Anna was not the subject of mistreatment as the coach was known to treat star players better, but she criticized the response by the federation so far as both the coach and some of his superiors have denied everything. Due to the nature of the allegations, it sounds like higher level government officials will be involved in investigating the situation and not the federation.
Here are more stories from the original media outlet about the Makurat sisters speaking out:
Afera w elitarnej szkole sportowej. Koszykarka się ujawnia. "Najwyższy czas położyć temu kres" - Sport WP SportoweFakty
"Nie mogę siedzieć cicho!". Koszykarka apeluje po głośnym reportażu - Sport WP SportoweFakty
"Pamiętaj, że jesteś zerem". Mocne oskarżenia pod adresem znanego trenera - Sport WP SportoweFakty
Most of the top young basketball players spend at least some of their high school years in an sports school specifically to train them that was run by a coach who also coached at the youth national team level. I am not going to try to summarize it since it is a delicate matter and I cannot be sure that the web translation is perfect, but accounts range from verbal abuse to sexual misconduct by this one coach.
The original article did not include the player's actual names, but Anna's sister Ola decided to change that and was the first player to share publicly with this Facebook post:
Dzisiejszy dzień jest dla mnie dniem... - Aleksandra Makurat | Facebook
Anna then made her own Facebook post:
Ania Makurat - Piątek godzina 7:00 Czwartek był dniem... | Facebook
It sounds like Anna was not the subject of mistreatment as the coach was known to treat star players better, but she criticized the response by the federation so far as both the coach and some of his superiors have denied everything. Due to the nature of the allegations, it sounds like higher level government officials will be involved in investigating the situation and not the federation.
Here are more stories from the original media outlet about the Makurat sisters speaking out:
Afera w elitarnej szkole sportowej. Koszykarka się ujawnia. "Najwyższy czas położyć temu kres" - Sport WP SportoweFakty
"Nie mogę siedzieć cicho!". Koszykarka apeluje po głośnym reportażu - Sport WP SportoweFakty