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"Not sure how to sum up how I feel as a parent concerning this coach and coaching staff. I will deal with what I know and facts. Terrible team culture, this staff allows 2 players in particular bully other players. When confronted with these facts they minimize what is actually happening. Lots of turnover in players usually leaving after one year either transfer or they stop playing the sport. Routinely pits players against each other. Staff promises parents and players that if they come to the school they will gain a starting position. The list of things go on and on. I could fill the page but wont bore you. If your a parent or player please be careful and reconsider this school for volleyball. Additionally, the AD has been told by players through exit interviews of what is occurring but has done little to nothing about what has transpired over several years. Players are told to lie to visiting recruits about team culture. If the currents players tell the truth they are threatened with being removed from the team."

"I did not have a good experience with Drew. He was the athletic director at BU while I was a female athlete at the school. It seemed his only priority was men's hockey. In my experience, my team brought issues with our coaching staff directly to him and through process of end of the year anonymous reviews. There was a lot of effort to cover up these issues and "save face" but little effort to fix the problems for the well-being of the student athletes. In our situation, the allegations and issues were serious problems and the players had to not only create the action but follow through with it the whole way. It felt like there was no one we could trust in higher positions (such as an athletic director) making the situation worse. When we as a team finally got some productive action, the athletic department sent out an email to alumni about the departure of an abusive coach and left out the abuse. They not only left out the abuse, but listed the coach's accolades and accomplishments, wished them well, and painted them to be a good coach. This not only harmed the players that endured the abuse and broke trust between athletes and the athletic department but opened the door for the abuse to continue further. Again, the players had to take action themselves to insure our voices were heard and our story was told by going to news outlets. This is the last thing an athlete wants to do on top of an already strenuous schedule and could have been avoided if Drew took the wellbeing of athletes (specifically female athletes) seriously. "

"There’s about a million things I could say about Jennifer Pawlowski as a head coach, some positives, but majority of my experience surrounding her was mental abuse, manipulation, and physical injuries. My number one takeaway from my four years here is she doesn’t care about her players as a person or as a whole. It is merely transactional. If you are producing on the stat sheets, she will give you at the least the time of day. However, if even her best players are having a bad game, they arent met with support, encouragement, or coaching ques. Instead you are ignored, considered a disappointment, and sometimes even humiliated in front of the entire team. Between her mind games, white board rankings, and overall manipulation of pitting her own players against eachother both on the field and in their own personal lives and living situations, all while she is preaching a positive team culture, it’s hard to have a positive college experience with college athletics. I love the game of lacrosse and spent my entire life loving and playing this sport. However, I will not and do not miss Gannon Lacrosse. Not because of the players or the game, but because of a coach who ruined the game for me. It has taken me a long time to figure out who I am away from this sport because being here taught me that all my value as a person was based on performance. If I wasn’t performing on the field, my self worth plummeted and my entire day to day seemed pointless. This was reinforced by her behavior towards her players. I have life long injuries that my four years of college has given me. You can say it’s apart of the sport, but I would disagree. I have never heard of a team with some many injuries both before the start of a season and during a season. Sprints was used as apart of her mind games. Bad stick skills, sprints. Offense can’t score, sprints. Defense gets scored on, sprints. No communication, sprints. She was in a bad mood, sprints. I could go on. This was typically on top of her mental toughness weeks (which I think someone explained in another post) and daily conditioning (sometimes 2x in a two hour practice slot). Running is apart of the sport and getting in shape is definitely important, but not when players are expected/forced to run on injuries out of fear of what she would do if you didn’t. Also how does this improve the stick skills that majority of her players non existently have? Lastly, just to mention she would get made at her players for not using the athletic trainer and then get made when players were seeing the athletic trainer and following their guidelines and recommendations. Overall, my biggest recommendation is just choose someone else. The admin of gannon university have been seeing the same patterns, complaints from players, and the mental and physical abuse she puts her players through for over 5 years. It happened before my time here and will continue until she is fired/retires from this university. If anything I hope this helps shed some light so another player can be saved from the same everyday fate I faced while apart of this program. "

"Bro literally screwed over people to go on vacation more often. Character is lacking "

"An absolute zero across the board. Lack of sportsmanship and fair play. Tries to engineer races to favor his team. Creates situations where opposing athletes are not able to compete on a fair playing field."