College Athletic Staff Rating: Ronda Varnesdeel at Davenport University

Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

My Experience Working Here

Date: February 2, 2026

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"In my experience, this workplace has serious ethical problems. Coaches are allowed to buy athletes drinks at the bar and engage in inappropriate relationships with them, which is deeply unprofessional. Misuse of funds is common and openly ignored. Employees who follow rules and try to do the right thing are discouraged or pushed out, while those who participate in or enable this behavior are rewarded and protected by leadership. Management appears more interested in maintaining corrupt practices than creating a safe, respectful, or accountable work environment. I would strongly caution anyone considering working here."

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

A Deeply Unethical And Unsafe Workplace

Date: February 2, 2026

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"Working here was one of the most disillusioning experiences of my career. Leadership consistently prioritized reputation over people, even when serious ethical violations were brought to their attention. During my time there, concerns were raised about a basketball coach engaging in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a player. Instead of taking immediate, transparent action to protect those involved and uphold basic standards of conduct, management chose to suppress the issue. Complaints were quietly buried, witnesses were discouraged from speaking up, and anyone who pushed for accountability faced retaliation, intimidation, or was effectively silenced. This created a culture of fear where staff learned quickly that doing the right thing came with consequences. Policies about ethics, safeguarding, and professionalism existed on paper only; in practice, they were ignored when inconvenient. If you value integrity, accountability, and a workplace that protects vulnerable people rather than powerful ones, I would strongly recommend looking elsewhere. No job is worth being asked—explicitly or implicitly—to participate in a cover-up."

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Predators Prowl

Date: February 2, 2026

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"Predatory is an understatement. They protect predators at DU. Why a grown man wants to sleep with a 19 year old is beyond me. Ronda thinks it’s ok though. Really great school Davenport is!"

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Ronda Is A Scam Artist!

Date: February 1, 2026

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"Pieces of s**t people! Ronda sets into motion someone’s medical files being left out hahaha dumb a*s people nice work dumb dumbs "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Hahhahahahhahwhhwhwha

Date: February 1, 2026

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"What a good person you are shitty people sick Sick sick how did you manhandle and manipulate that horrible people hahahahhaha the du softball team should light on fire when they do to cedarville absolutely terrible humans "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Loser Baby Hey Gonna Sue

Date: February 1, 2026

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"Hahahahahahahhaha this is why I transferred the Hasselds are a joke "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Hahahahhahahahahahah

Date: February 1, 2026

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"Hahahhahahhahahhaa what a god damn dance team! What a loser!"

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

My Perspective At Davenport. Predators Paradise

Date: February 1, 2026

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"Terrible people at Davenport. Wouldn’t want to be associated with such a horrific place that’s why I transferred. Ronda plays favorites and has double standards for FEMALES! The schools is a joke. My high school courses were harder. Employees buy athletes drinks at the bar and are inappropriate. The wbb coach had an affair with a 20 year old on his team. Everyone just laughs at the corruption. The training room is the gossip station. They know all the wrong being committed by administration and coaches and choose to talk and laugh about it unless they don’t like you then you can convince them to tell Jason. Everyone at the school is on the corruption. Trainers text and have inappropriate relationships with athletes and even go into our rooms on away trips. It’s all just very odd and no one cares or does anything about it. Davenport is truly a predators paradise. Admin are the biggest offenders. Be warned it’s all very abnormal!! They will try and Brainwash you into thinking it’s all fine and normal- it’s NOT. "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Removing The Ability To Report Concerns Is Criminal And Wouldn’t Expect Anything Less From Du

Date: February 1, 2026

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"Davenport is so corrupt they removed their ethics point/ HR reporting bc so many employees and students wrote in about Ronda and administration. Has Davenport investigated the direct evidence linking Ronda and coaches who steal money and sleep and drink with their athletes. It should be a major violation removing this critical form of reporting. Wouldn’t expect anything less from this lying, corrupt university. Hey everyone - contact the title 9 coordinator?? Who? RONDA? Hahaha so so so criminal! Great job DU! As an athlete I feel violated and I feel like they want to know our identity’s so they can punish us and banish us from the school. It’s already a lot of pressure being a student athlete now this just bc these people in power are getting exposed. I have so much anxiety over this. This is WRONG "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Davenport University Encourages Academic Fraud For Athletes

Date: February 1, 2026

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"Brain rot U Brainwash U Parents call and change grades bc they don’t like them and parents take classes for their children. It’s happened with multiple student athletes on multiple teams. What a college education you will receive at this uneducated university. Academic fraud at its finest. An all around terrible place to be a professor having to deal with this absurdity. Athletes miss class all the time, no punishment or accountability. Severe academic fraud is occurring here I am a witness to it. Ronda and coaches what are you teaching students? It’s STUDENT first. Sports should come in second. "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Davenport Is One Of The Most Corrupt And Sick Schools In The Country

Date: February 1, 2026

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"I worked at Davenport when Ronda sent an email to the athletic department praising the leadership of the wbb coach who was in a sexual relationship with his player for over a year. Administration knew and covered it up. Many emails were written from the coaches home town indicating the police investigated this same relationship when the player was in high school and the coach coached at the high school. RONDA and the administration blatantly covered this up. They allowed the relationship to go on and silenced anyone and everyone that spoke about it. They sent the assistant out to pasture because she was vocal about it being WRONG - rightfully so. Davenport University operates on their own terms and things like this are Normal at DU. The people in charge make their own rules and violate so many NCAA RULES AND REGULATIONS. It’s truly one of the most corrupt, disturbing and sick schools in the country. They will never be held accountable for their actions because they do what they want. Things like this are the norm at DU. "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

My Experience At Du As A Footballer

Date: February 1, 2026

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"I played soccer at DU and I’m convinced Ronda is pure evil. I’ve watched her influence and change some really kind, sweet people. DU has become a place with no accountability and entitlement is encouraged. Ronda truly has impacted so many student athletes negatively and they won’t even see it until they get out of that place. It’s really hard to see when you’re in it and people are normalizing basically being a bad person. When you aren’t submerged in that toxicity anymore you start realizing a lot of things. DU is a place with great potential but the evil people that are in charge here will forever keep it being toxic. It’s taken me time to realize most of what occurs at Davenport is NOT normal and what they allow shouldn’t be happening on a college campus. Being groomed to be a spoiled, entitled, drunk, no accountability athlete has not helped me in the real world. The classes at DU are also so insanely easy so that they didn’t prepare me for my job at all. I do regret transferring to DU. I thought the grass was going to be greener bc on the outside everything at Davenport is really really nice. It’s the inside of this place you have to watch out for. People here are truly evil and Ronda is their ring leader. Stabbing people in the back to get ahead is actually really wrong and not standing up for what is right is also just as wrong. DU is creating some scary people but normalizing bad things it’s truly sad to watch now that I’m not in it. "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Tragic. Davenport Is Disgusting. But They Get A Lot So Ppl Keep Their Mouth Shut

Date: January 31, 2026

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"Historic win! Big Loser on covering up a coach sleeping with his players. About time for a decent team…. what’s the turnover rate the past 3 years?? Ok! Should be investigated! Disturbing cover ups at Davenport. Sex scandals come in last place to these kids getting their gear. How sickening is that? "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Bad Is An Understatement

Date: January 31, 2026

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"Be careful what you read about how stellar of a coach Rhonda was. It isn’t put in articles how abusive and mean her coaching style was or how she had no regard to any rules being NAIA. Fast forward to her stepping in to coach my daughter at Davenport. It was like she never coached before. Runners constantly getting thrown out, playing favorites that did “favors” for her, not communicating at all. Let it be known if you get on her bad side she will try and ruin you. I’ve watched this with coaches and players. She’s a flat out liar. She tells people what they want to hear and then talks behind their back. She’s extremely unprofessional and always looks like a bum. I honestly can’t believe she’s an administrator. Times have definitely changed and I think how her career would be totally different if she coached now. She is out of touch and inappropriate. I strongly would not recommend. "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Trailer Trash U! Go Du!

Date: January 31, 2026

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"Protects predators that usually are all male but on occasion female (facilities worker) that are full time DU employees that sleep with DU student athletes. EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT IT. Ronda is protected, predators are protected and athletes have zero accountability for sleeping and drinking with staff members. Great school!!"

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Once A Saint Always A Saint. Wrong

Date: January 31, 2026

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"As a former Saint is bush league and bullshit what you pulled on the softball coaches to get your buddy there. They should sue your a*s for that. It’s plain wrong. Going through these reviews it seems like you do a lot of shady s**t. DU appears to be a s**t show and allowing employees to sleep with kids is sickening. "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Davenport University Don’t Du It

Date: January 31, 2026

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"Constantly talked negatively about the previous men’s golf coach bc her friend former women’s golf coach didn’t like he. They have no business being so unprofessional around student athletes and it’s laughable they are in leadership positions. They completely LIE and spread their own narratives to get students and staff to have their hateful views of people. DU IS A JOKE. If you are good at golf this isn’t the place to go. It’s joke. Athletes drink on the course during practice and it’s not structured at all. And you never know you might end up with ronda being your coach. She knows so much about golf. A complete joke. "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Not A Good Person

Date: January 30, 2026

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"What rhymes with witch? Worst person I’ve ever met. Terrible coach that was consistently unorganized and didn’t communicate at all. "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Someone At Du Is Probably In On The Svsu Scandal

Date: January 30, 2026

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"Someone should look into the investigation of the Svsu wbb basketball program being taken over by a DU guy connected to covering up a coach sleeping with his player. And to top it off the women’s basketball coach at DU coached at SVSU so strange things are happening. "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Wbb Cover Up. So Sad

Date: January 30, 2026

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"Women’s basketball cover up. Svsu now is being taken over by a guy that came from DU and his boss at DU covered up a guy sleeping with his player. College sports is sad. "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

H**L Is Burning Hot At Du Lettinga

Date: January 29, 2026

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"You can’t rewrite the bible during Bible study. Losers in life. Trying to hide behind the Bible and GOD is truly interesting to watch. So sad. "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Davenport University Is Disgusting! Rewards And Cheers For Predators

Date: January 29, 2026

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"“We greatly appreciate Coach ______ guidance during a challenging year……….We wish him well in his future endeavors.” Slept with his players. Cover up at DU. No respect for Ronda or admin at all. Nice email though. Sick people at DU!"

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Below Average

Date: January 29, 2026

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"Doesn’t communicate at all. Complete double standard. Did a terrible job coaching our team. "

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

Du Is A Joke

Date: January 28, 2026

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"Either you are unqualified or you have a friendship/ personal relationship with RHonda if you work in DU athletics. If you don’t you’ll be gone in a maximum of 5 years. Check the resumes of people in power. The former women’s golf coach and a former secretary just keep getting handed jobs they ain’t qualified for. Guess she can afford new tires now! Laughable, manipulative and all around WRONG. Everyone in GR knew the softball coach was going to get that job years prior. The sad fact is they didn’t even give coaches a chance to get the job in the hiring process. A coach who was/ is consistently ranked in the top 25 in D2 with multiple conference championships and all region and all American players wasn’t even considered for the position. Friends and favors! Same goes for many positions within the athletic department. Rhonda has forced many coaches out of positions to get her friends in. I for one think that is wrong at the division 2 level. Are we in high school? Sadly staff members are still in relationships with students and she doesn’t care. Du is insane!!"

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Women's Softball

Ronda Varnesdeel

Associate Director of Athletics

Davenport University

NCAA DII • Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | GLIAC

The Skeletons In Du’s Closet… Gonna Need A Bigger Closet

Date: January 28, 2026

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"I mean who is going to phone a friend on SVSU LEADERSHIP. Placing a former DU basketball assistant who has ties to a coach that needs and deserves to be investigated at Davenport for covering up the women’s basketball coach sleeping with his players. So absurd. Davenport U should be closed. Literally a trailer trash place that allows and normalizes this behavior. Great education? What are you teaching? All this school does is cover s**t up and protect people who are doing actual HARM TO STUDENT ATHLETES. "

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