University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth)

"I will say she is very knowledgeable about the sport of lacrosse, if you want to learn the game better she is a coach of that, however, I want to say that you can learn the game at any other school also! Disclaimer: I am not sure who fault this is on but one example on how it is like to be apart of the team is you will work your a*s off and achieve milestones ie 100 GB, Goals, Saves and etc. However, if you weren't the "face" of the program, your milestone was not celebrated. I would hit the same milestone as my teammate, my teammate would get a post on the Athletics page with graphics and I would not. Another example, is one team gets to keep the ball for a milestone..I did not. These are examples of the demoralization that goes on with the program which created a toxic program where we as players felt like why try if we do not get the recognization for the hard work we are putting in. She made us rank eachother in categorize (I'm not sure if that's normal but it was demoralizing for some of my teammates) It's like she wants us to be competitive which is great! However she never hid the fact that she has favorites or awarded the players that weren't so it creates a "why try" environment. She is extremely passive aggressive, understanding to some, but not others. Would make players choose between academics or lacrosse games (not my story to tell). However, I will say if you are a playing majoring in something easy, not involved in campus and have a lot of time on your hands, she'll love that!! She offers time during the day to work on skills, I think that's great to get that one on one but if you didn't take advantage of that...you are on the naughty list. Again, I'm a very competitive player, I am not a perfect player, I have flaws, this isn't some angry player who didn't get playing time (She couldn't even keep players from quitting). This is coming from someone who is reflecting on their career and realized that I was along with my teammates truly suffered from being coached by her. "

"Great human being who cares and is kind but not a coach you desire to play for. "

"I played for Coach Jason his first season at umass. After reading these reviews and taking time to think to myself, I wanted to give an honest review. To start, coach is overall a good guy. He helps us with what we need outside the field but on the field is just not what the school needs. Coach would often show up to practice late. I could tell the team lost interest in him after the first couple times it happened. Practices overall were pretty bad, and we worked on nothing that translated to the game at all. Often showing up to games right on time, having horrible communication, and not taking it serious, how is he still there is my question. Coach along with the assistants have not built a program that is successful at all. 2-3 legit wins in 2 years is utterly unreal. Everyone on our roster that I played with absolutely despised playing for him and how can you want to win for a guy that says he cares about you but doesn’t show it. I hope the best for umass and I hope they go along and fire this guy and allow someone to step in that knows the game! Jason should not be there and I know many people that would love to build that program. As always, Roll Sairs!"

"Besides the coach himself writing his own positive reviews, everyone I have talked to that has played under Jason has hated it. This has caused many kids to quit the team and many kids like myself to not come back to the team. Jason is a coach where once you get on the bad side you will not see the field again. I came in as a freshman and he had many unkept promises. Practices we had were horrible, coaches would show up late and about everyone on the team was fed up with the coaching staff. Hopefully Umass will step away from him and give the players that are going there the next couple years a chance to win and a chance to compete."

"Jason is a caring guy but a hard guy to play for. Fitness is all that matters and if you can run you can play. I played for Coach Jason in 2019-2020. The team lacks passion while playing for him, nobody wants to play for him at all. The culture around his teams are uneasy and he is not a locker room favorite. Hopefully Coach is doing well but I have nothing to say positive about his coaching in any way except he was a caring guy. Practices are wastes of time, staff gets there late, shows up under the influence some times, and they are not well thought out practices. Hopefully it has changed but after seeing records from the current Umass team I see no improvement and I bet the current team feels the same way as I did with my old teammates. "

"Coach Jason helped me believe in myself when I didn't have self belief. He showed me that people care about me and helped me to pursue my goals as a soccer player. He was always fair and communicated with me clearly exactly what I needed to do. There was never any question as to whether coach would be there for me. He was always looking for ways to help us be better and to win. I think of coach when I come up against hard challenges and ask myself if there is anything I can do differently. I loved playing for Coach Jason. He was always there for me no matter what. "

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"I only had him for a year because I graduated in 2014, but he helped the 2015 team win the championship"