"I used to be part of the VCU Cross Country and Track Team back in 2020. I quit in 2021. I will expose the real dark truth about VCU Cross Country and Track Team. The head coach Jon Riley treated me very bad. He was so rude to me over the phone and made me cry so bad. He wouldn’t allow any of our friends, family, and relatives to visit close to the track field and on the cross country and track meets. He didn’t even posted the student athletes rules and polices document on the VCU athletics website under cross country and track & field for something we should know as student athletes. This head coach wanted me out of VCU and the team itself. This made me almost transfer to an out of state university. He made the team a very toxic environment to be in. He made the teammates not get along with each other and hate each other. This got me traumatize until this day. I didn’t welcome by him and the cross coach Wesley Stephens at all and also by the team including teammates. I was easy discriminated due to me being Hispanic. VCU Cross Country and Track Team is very discriminatory towards Hispanic, South Asian, and Asian student athletes. This head coach favors White and African American student athletes than any other minority groups. Jon Riley needs to get fired and reassign immediately as soon as possible. VCU Athletics needs to do better of who they hire in coaches for cross country and track. Please do yourself a favor, do not go to VCU to do cross country and track. Find another university to join cross country and track with a very good environment and a nice coach who does treat student athletes very good. Do not waste your value, tuition, money, and time going to do cross country and track & field team here at VCU. "

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