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"She is passionate about the game but fails to produce as a leader on the field. She manipulates and buys your respect buys purchasing you food and things you may need, especially after yelling and getting angry at us. She degrades you and makes you question your worth on the field. Not a good coach. Our record is horrible and has been for decades. "

"I was on the team for 2 years. Dance was my whole life. I was so excited and when Abby first entered the picture she was kind and just as excited for me. She made me feel like I was her favorite and her friend, and as a fresh 18 year old, what could be better than a coach you liked and liked you? After about 3 weeks, the narrative changed. She became distracted by others, leaving me feeling alone and invisible on the team. I went from getting messages checking in on me, compliments, and encouragement to getting yelled at, told I wasn’t good enough, and that my mental health was an issue. I would ask for support, ask for critique to be better, and turn to her for guidance in every aspect of my life. When you are in college away from home, you look for someone to confide in and help you in tough situations. Never did I think that she would use that against me. She would spread rumors about me to the other girls, twisting the things I was telling her in confidence to make me seem like a bad person. She would overstep boundaries, talking to us about her deeply personal issues, like boyfriends, sex, money, etc. she would have her freshman running errands for her to feel liked. I got into an accident and had a concussion for two months because she rushed my recovery. She didn’t believe us when we were in pain. When we needed a break, whether physical or mental, she didn’t care. It was just more fuel she could use against you. She lied countless times. She also stole money from the team. She requested that we would send our fundraising money to her personal Venmo instead of the schools dance account because “it wouldn’t go to the right place”. Then would come to practice with new shoes, new hair, new clothes, etc. somehow the dance account was always almost drained no matter how much fundraising we did. Abby was also racist. She would often make sly comments to the girls of color on the team, or about them to other girls. She would always put them in the back of the formations and would often pull the for “various reasons”. She also refused to order costumes, tights, and shoes that matched their skin tone, making them feel uncomfortable and isolated. Abby also only enforced policies she set if she didn’t like you. Penn is a dry campus and if you got busted for drinking and she didn’t like you, you were kicked off. But if she did, then you were “just like her in college” and got a pass. The favoritism was so loud, it often caused rifts in the teams. She often would pin dance and cheer athletes against each other, comparing us and complaining about the other team during practice. She went through multiple assistants during my time. Once they would disagree with her “coaching methods” they were gone. DO NOT hire Abby. You will cause more harm than good to your program and your athletes. Many of her current and past athletes deal with mental health issues because of her and physical issues due to her lack of care. "

"In a matter of 3 years at Davenport 2 wrestlers died. Not sure why there hasn’t been an investigation into this and Ronda, Paul and athletics. Davenport needs to be looked into. As a wrestling guy this is shameful and disgraceful to be swept under the rug. "

"If you’re thinking about playing for Coach Tony Trifonov at LIU, I think it’s important to know what the experience is actually like. The whole situation started off badly. The coach who recruited me was fired out of nowhere less than a month before the season started, and it felt very unfair. From what we understood, it was because Tony had a connection with the athletic director from years ago. After that, we went almost two weeks of preseason without any coach at all. We had no communication and were basically running open gyms by ourselves, not even knowing where Tony was or when he was coming. When he finally got there, he immediately started talking badly about the previous coach, saying he “didn’t know what he was doing.” He also told us multiple times early on that he could just replace the whole team, which created a pretty negative and uncomfortable environment. Another big issue was academics. All of us had already built our class schedules in the spring to fit around early practices so we could take the classes we actually needed. He changed practice to 3 PM and straight up said he wouldn’t make it early because he doesn’t like waking up early. Because of that, I had to take classes I didn’t need and couldn’t take ones I did need, and I know other girls were in the same situation. Traveling was also really disorganized. There were times we almost missed flights because he didn’t seem to know what was going on. He relied heavily on our athletic trainer for things like where we were eating or even how we were getting back, which isn’t even her job. In practice, it honestly felt like his wife (the assistant coach) was the one actually running everything. I was injured for most of the season with a fractured rib, and instead of support, Tony would spend practices talking my ear off and even showing me random music videos. On top of that, he didn’t believe my injury was real. He told teammates in one-on-one meetings that he thought I was faking it to get a redshirt year and said he couldn’t trust me because he didn’t recruit me. When I brought this up in my exit meeting, he got very defensive and started talking badly about my teammates, saying they were lying. Throughout my injury, he also made comments implying I didn’t get hurt in practice and suggested things like I “got drunk and fell,” which was completely false. The injury happened during practice. Overall, the experience was really disappointing. There was a lack of communication, organization, and respect, both as an athlete and as a student. It’s something I think people should seriously think about before committing."

"Puts on a good show in public and for recruits and their family. Toxic and turns on a dime. “What Abby wants, Abby gets”, regardless of ethics, safety, and mental health. Would not hire (recently fired), or allow an athlete on ANY team she is coaching. 9 years of alumni and current athletes can back with facts and pictures. "