Women's Field Hockey

Laura Hurff

Women's Field Hockey Assistant Coach

Stanford University

NCAA DI - FBS • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

The Worst Decision Ever ..... Don't Let Her Ruin Your Program

Date: November 16, 2024

By Other

1.6

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

1.0

4.0

1.0

Tags

"She is an unstable narcissist. Don't be fooled but her playing record . Manipulative and mean. Pits players agt each other. Her instability destroys a team culture. Humiliation is her go to. "

0

Women's Golf

Anne Walker

Golf The Margot & Mitch Milias Director of Women's Golf

Stanford University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Really Wish I Could Warn My Younger Self

Date: July 6, 2024

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.0

2.5

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Intense Accessible Cool Direct Poor Communication

"genuinely can't imagine a worse coach."

0

Women's Lacrosse

Danielle Spencer

Women's Lacrosse Head Coach

Stanford University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Avoid At All Costs. Not A Nice Person.

Date: March 17, 2024

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

2.1

1.8

2.1

2.3

1.8

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Intense Poor Communication Accessible Cool Direct

"Ran off top donors. Ran off 5 assistant coaches. Sue by one former assistant. Has never gotten past the first round of the NCAA’s at Stanford. Not a nice person. "

0

Women's Lacrosse

Danielle Spencer

Women's Lacrosse Head Coach

Stanford University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Revolving Door Of Assistants

Date: February 20, 2024

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

2.1

1.8

2.1

2.3

1.8

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Intense Poor Communication Accessible Cool Direct

"The turnover in her coaching staff is reflective of her poor organizational and leadership skills. It is a revolving door of assistant coaches as DS herself seeks to jump ship. Despite her assertions that she is staying put, everyone know she is looking to leave. "

1

Women's Lacrosse

Danielle Spencer

Women's Lacrosse Head Coach

Stanford University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Do Not Trust This Coach She Lies To Get What She Wants

Date: September 26, 2023

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

2.1

1.8

2.1

2.3

1.8

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Intense Poor Communication Accessible Cool Direct

"Coach Spencer is a narcissistic person who only cares about winning. Beware of this woman - she is the perfect example of what is wrong with college sports. Its a joke that a school that values integrity employees a coach with none. "

6

Women's Lacrosse

Danielle Spencer

Women's Lacrosse Head Coach

Stanford University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

It Is Unfortunate That She Is A Coach Who Young People Look Up To She Is A Horrible Human Being

Date: July 9, 2023

By Other

1.6

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

2.1

1.8

2.1

2.3

1.8

Tags

Intense Poor Communication Accessible Cool Direct

"Honestly I have Nothing nice to say about this woman "

2

Women's Lacrosse

Danielle Spencer

Women's Lacrosse Head Coach

Stanford University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Doesn’t Care About The Players Well Being Just Her Own Self Serving Needs

Date: July 6, 2023

By Other

1.2

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

2.1

1.8

2.1

2.3

1.8

Tags

Intense Poor Communication Accessible Cool Direct

"It’s enough of abusive self serving coaches who are ruining young women!!! "

2

Women's Lacrosse

Danielle Spencer

Women's Lacrosse Head Coach

Stanford University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

She Is An Awful Human Being And Embarrassment To Every Good Honest Coach And The Sport Of Women’s Lacrosse!

Date: July 3, 2023

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

2.1

1.8

2.1

2.3

1.8

Tags

Intense Poor Communication Accessible Cool Direct

"This coach is an overgrown child with no values or morals. She will run over your dog if in her way. It’s ironic that Stanford talks about integrity and values when they employ this awful women who uses adolescences like pawns and throws them away like trash when she doesn’t need them. She takes no responsibility for her actions and yet she is put on a pedestal - she is everything that is wrong with sports and ruins girls experiences. She doesn’t care about the kind of players on her team. And sadly Stanford is just waiting for another suicide of a college athlete instead of taking action. "

2

Men's Tennis

Paul Goldstein

Men's Tennis Taube Family Director of Men's Tennis

Stanford University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Dont Go To Stanford If You Want To Develop As A Player He Screws Up Every Player He's Gotten

Date: August 2, 2022

By Other

1.4

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.2

3.4

3.3

3.8

2.7

Tags

Intense Accessible Cool Direct Poor Communication

"Again, Cards get two great recruiting classes for '22 and '23 but unless the culture and coaching is changed, no progress will be made towards a national championship. Its no different that the two previous year recruiting classes being top in the country (pre season team ranked in top 5), and yet with all the recruiting success the best Goldstein has managed is a measly round of 16 NCAA (only 3 times in his 10-year tenure at stanford), and one outright Pac12 championship title (when Boyer was there). Goldstein has zero coaching skills and has no idea how to develop players and no idea how to run a practice or motivate players. The team doesnt even have a dedicated tennis-centric strength and conditioning trainer (they share with other teams). The fact that Geller, who was #1 in the world in juniors with a 142 MPH serve isn't playing pro is a sad tragedy and sad testament to the extremely poor coaching - its almost impossible to F-up a world #1 ranked junior!. If you can't win a national championship with Geller Boyer Fery Sridhar Roetsart Sah Basing, etc., you can't win with any team! To put it factually, when looking at player data and results, Goldstein is the worst coach in Stanford history. The highest ATP ranked player he has coached in his 10 years at stanford is Tom Fawcett at 440atp - that is just pitiful. Geller's high was 536 atp. What a joke and so disappointing to see such great player talent getting wasted. With all the resources stanford has they should have world class coaching and world class player development and world class personnel"

0

Men's Tennis

Paul Goldstein

Men's Tennis Taube Family Director of Men's Tennis

Stanford University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Don't Go To Stanford If Your Intention Is To Improve As A Player, Or Win The Nca As.

Date: April 25, 2022

By Other

1.6

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.2

3.4

3.3

3.8

2.7

Tags

Intense Accessible Cool Direct Poor Communication

"Not a positive person, very insecure, and odd personality. Uncomfortable socially. Extremely poor communicator and players have raised concerns about this. He never coached any player or team prior to being hired by stanford 9 years ago. Made it to the NCAA rd of 16 only twice in 9 years and won the Pac12 only once, despite having some of the best recruiting classes in school history, including Geller (#1 junior in world) and Boyer (#5 junior in world) and Fery (#11 junior in world). Recruits and parents have complained about his honesty and integrity. Players don't respect him. Doesn't know how to run a practice or develop players, or manage a team. Geller entered as a freshman with a 14.75 UTR, now he is a 13.4. Boyer left team after allegedly poor decision making by coach. Other players disgruntled and team chemistry has been reported in media as bad. Other coaches don't respect him. If you want to get better as a player, don't go to stanford. Lots of injuries because the team doesn't have a dedicated tennis-specific trainer. Don't believe a word Paul says. "

0

Men's Football

Bobby April

Men's Football Assistant Coach / Run Game Coordinator / Outside Linebackers

University of Wisconsin (Madison)

NCAA DI - FBS • Centennial Conference

Arrogant Little Man Who Never Played The Game He Teaches

Date: March 16, 2022

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

1.0

"No way I can think he possibly could have gotten a job coaching something he didn’t play is because of his daddy. "

0

Men's Tennis

Paul Goldstein

Men's Tennis Taube Family Director of Men's Tennis

Stanford University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Poor Paul

Date: December 16, 2021

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.2

3.4

3.3

3.8

2.7

Tags

Intense Accessible Cool Direct Poor Communication

"Paul basically is a liar. No consistency, no trust. He is very rude. I would say he doesn’t know what he is doing to the kids. He is good at destroying kids’ confidence. I feel sorry about him. I am lucky my son is not under his coach! He doesn’t know how to organize the team. "

0

Men's Tennis

Paul Goldstein

Men's Tennis Taube Family Director of Men's Tennis

Stanford University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

This Coach Lacks Integrity

Date: December 16, 2021

By Other

1.6

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.2

3.4

3.3

3.8

2.7

Tags

Intense Accessible Cool Direct Poor Communication

"This coach does not have integrity during the recruiting. He Should not be allowed to represent an elite school like Stanford. Under his coaching, Stanford gets top recruits year over year but the program has been underperforming for years. Think about it, There must be a reason behind it."

0

Women's Lacrosse

Amy Bokker

Women's Lacrosse Associate Head Coach

Ohio State University

NCAA DI • Centennial Conference

Date: March 17, 2021

By Verified Athlete

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.4

3.0

3.4

4.0

2.8

Tags

Direct Intense Accessible Cool

"writes you off and then treats you like crap if she doesn't think you are good enough"

1

Women's Sailing

Brian Swingly

Women's Sailing Head Coach

Stanford University

NCAA DI • Missouri Valley Football Conference | MVFC

Date: May 16, 2020

By Verified Athlete

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

1.0

"Brian is not transparent with players, recruits, or parents. The culture on this team is toxic and Brian ignores it and continues to promote toxic players. Brian does not respect the fact that student athletes are students first. "

0

Women's Sailing

Brian Swingly

Women's Sailing Head Coach

Stanford University

NCAA DI • Missouri Valley Football Conference | MVFC

Date: May 16, 2020

By Verified Athlete

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

1.0

"Brian is not professional. He plays favorites, withholds information, and does not understand that student athletes are students first. The culture on this team is horrible, and Brian just ignores toxic aspects and continues to reward individuals who contribute to this bad culture. He is not upfront with recruits or parents. "

0

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