"Abby was so nice at the beginning of my freshman year. I’ve been here all four years for context. Sent me texts checking in on me and making me feel welcome on the team. However somewhere she started to shift. The deeper we got into our competition season she started making up rumors that my teammates were saying I should be kicked off the team and out of the routine. We all liked each other and I knew they weren’t saying that she lied to “motivate” me and that’s when I realized she wasn’t who she said she was in the recruiting process. She also talked to the other coaches about my ethnicity and hair type saying I didn’t know how to do my hair and that she didn’t like it. They informed me of this and I was very sad. If I was six or injured she’d question “how sick are you” and “can you still come in” she would tell athletes they were faking injuries or concussions.She also would blame me for why we didn’t win if I couldn’t get certain skills in a short amount of time. She asked me to skip the classes that I pay for by the way for practice. She would change the schedules last minute knowing people were working to support themselves and asked could they miss. She also had favorites and made it blatantly obvious who she liked because they would be in the front. She also would put the girls of color in the back for every routine. She also listened to the favorites and let them make team decisions without consulting the team or captains. Also if you were the favorite you got away with everything under the sun. If she liked you the 24 hour drinking rule didn’t apply and you were just a college student “blowing off steam” I watched her multiple times let people cheer and dance at games or events under the influence and she never said a word to them or made them do punishments like she said she would. She also cried to us about how we made her feel like a bad coach at multiple practices. I’ve never dealt with someone so unprofessional in my life. Some people might be able to walk away saying they had the best experience being on her team but I will never get to say that and that’s sad. She took what I loved most and robbed me of its joy. I was nothing but professional and nice to her and even tried to understand how she could treat people that way."

"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. "

"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. "

"She is a horrible coach. If you want ur student athletes to suffer.. go ahead and hire her. "

"I was on the team for 2.5 years and at first she was really caring, understanding, helpful, etc. After that honeymoon stage was over, that’s when her true colors started to show!! She started being insensitive, bad at communicating, using mental health against me, and so much more. I can go on and on about how horrible she was to us on the team. She also definitely had favorites on the team. I feel like she was probably scared of some of the people on the dance team or something. She was also racist. She would always make slick comments. I am a Black woman and I requested to have tights and shoes that are my skin tone and she made an excuse to why we couldn’t get them. I even gave her the place she could look into so we could get some that match us. It’s so much and I could go on for a long time about my experience with her at Penn!! Thank you to the ones that help make this possible! "