"My experience with her showed a coach that was pragmatic, and extermely knowledgable on the subject of swimming, those are the only true positive things I can say about her. While not intentially agressive nor purposely harsh on swimmers and divers, I believe her biggest problem is negligance and her inability to effectively communicate and encourage the athletes on the team to be themselves and to encourage a positive energy. At times she lets her emotional outbursts get in the way of some practices, other times she does not consider the perspectives of other atheles on the team and consistantly negagted the fustriations felt on the team. Consequentially, this helped to contribute to an environment of petty trash talking and stress that created an environment not fit for any atheltic program. While certain things are developing and I am sure that the problems on the team will be accounted for, this includes her personnal flaws, long after I am gone, I do believe it has to start with her establishing a better relationship with others not as a coach but as a caring and sensitive induvidual that is aware of the problems on the team. For any swimmer or diver thinking aobut Union College, I do think there are better programs out there and Union College and currently, it is not worth it considering the lack of encouragement and lesser energy on the team. "

"she was not a good coach."

"Jeff has it all!! Former Player, Great Tactician, Intense and driven to succeed"

"Seemed to be good with the girls and was very honest with us"

"Very honest with us throughout the recruiting process and didn't really sugar coat anything"

"Super reachable during my recruiting process, didn't end up going but still a great coach"

"Very dedicated and knowledgeable of the game."

"Doesn't keep commitments. Lies to recruits. Does not know how to develop and run systems. Doesn't have experienced or knowledgeable assistant coaches. Unaware of major issues off ice. "

"Coach Murphy is a good person at heart, but not the right fit to coach a collegiate level basketball team. I can honestly say that I left campus significantly worse at the game of basketball than I entered it and left effectively stripped of all of my passion for the game in general. I can’t attribute this to anything other than Coach Murphy, his coaching style, and how he runs his practices. His practices offered virtually no skill development, making it almost impossible to improve my skillset. Instead, for the first hour we participated in elementary drills involving pivot foot and triple threat position. The second hour turned into football practice with aggressive every man for themself defensive drills. The last 15 or so minutes we would spend going over plays that generated little success. My teammates were my brothers and I loved every second of the years I got to spend with them, but Coach Murphy took away my love for the game. "

"Stubborn and uninformed with a mentality that steers towards running his plays the right way rather than actually winning games. "

"Toxic, manipulative, bullies players she does not like, yet favors a select few players. Is a very smooth-talker and involved in players lives, but it is extremely overbearing (would spy on our Venmo accounts!), yet once in season you quickly realize why she has never coached a winning season in over 10 years. Nice freshman year, but once makes up her mind about a player, refuses to believe in them or even help them develop on her team, instead bullies them into quitting!"

"Stay away from this coach, promises everything to her players, but delivers nothing but a toxic manipulative environment where she emotionally abused select players on her team. Very nice at first freshman year, but becomes horrible once she decides she does not like you, is not a favorite and gets “sick of you.” former players have come forward about her actions once graduated, but she never faces consequences "

"While kind to some players and means well, she lacks honesty or transparency with her team. Tends to say one thing in public, but a completely different thing to other players in private. Claims to have an open environment, yet when players actually go to her for help (fh related or not) she ends up using it against them or just makes things worse"

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"She really tries, but she needs to be more honest with her players. She tends to tell us one thing, and then does the exact opposite. She also isn't great at dealing with problems, in most cases she makes them worse. "