Women's Soccer

Todd Shulenberger

Women's Soccer Head Coach

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Old School Mentality With No Culture

Date: November 12, 2024

By Other

1.4

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

1.3

1.0

1.3

2.8

1.0

Tags

"The coaching staff at WSU is notorious for lying to players. Rely on tactics that no longer work, and fully relies on individual players with no goal of playing or building as a team. Assistant coach Matt Kagan also does not get along with players and nobody wants to play or work hard for this staff. Transfers and incoming freshmen beware. Also lack of communication and expectations on the field are very unclear. Absolultely 0 team culture and the team struggles because of it. Players do work very hard and want to be successful which is a good thing and it is a competitive enviorment which some people may thrive in. "

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Women's Soccer

Todd Shulenberger

Women's Soccer Head Coach

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Plays His Favorite Players. Recruits Too Many D1 Players But Does Utilizes Everyone Abilities.

Date: August 27, 2024

By Other

1.6

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

1.3

1.0

1.3

2.8

1.0

Tags

Intense Poor Communication Old School Mentality Fitness Is Important Disorganized

"This based on former and present athletes "

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Coed Cross Country/Track & Field

Pia Richards

Director of Operations

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth | MACC

Believes In Your Ability To Fail

Date: August 16, 2024

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

1.0

Tags

Poor Communication

"Creates a BAD team culture. Talk about negative and just downright mean. I overheard her talking about several of the female athletes negatively on a daily basis . And never anything constructive, always something meant to make the other person feel bad if they heard it. Very two faced, very mean, overall not recommended for any position in my opinion."

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Women's Soccer

Matt Kagan

Women's Soccer Assistant Coach

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Yeah, This Guy Is Not Very Good Lol

Date: March 21, 2024

By Athlete

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

1.0

1.5

1.0

Tags

Poor Communication

"Matt Kagan was the head coach at Oregon state while I was there. He was a horrible coach. He was a super intense coach, which actually a lot of us appreciated, but he was so unprofessional, and manipulative. He told us we “weren’t allowed to get injured” and told us we shouldn’t ask to go to the doctor. There was one instance where I was getting my blood drawn after my soccer obligations were over for the day in the summer time. I did this because I got a MRSA infection in my knee (due to not being able to see the doctor). He called and my roommates and demanded to know where I was. He called me while I was in the doctors office multiple times. Then at practice, he screamed at me and told me “he needs to know where I am at, at all times”. He almost got into a fist fight with our assistant at the time, getting in his face, screaming “I WILL SEND YOU HOME TO YOUR FAMILY”, as he was from the south. He tried to get the players kick the injured players off the team if they were on scholarship since they weren’t being “useful”. All he did was scream at you. He lasted two years at Oregon state and got fired as a head coach. He has no room coaching in womens soccer. He can’t handle the pressure, and honestly, didn’t have that much soccer knowledge. We did better the year he took over just due to him having higher expectations of us, which again, we liked that piece, but the way he went about it was awful. He did a lot of horrible things that I won’t put on here. He is now a goalie coach at WSU, lol. "

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Men's Baseball

Anthony Claggett

Men's Baseball Assistant Coach/ Pitching

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Knowledgeable Recruiter Who Gave Me A Holistic Experience Of The University

Date: November 17, 2023

By Other

4.4

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.0

5.0

4.0

"Super good recruiter who is very easy to talk to. Very knowledgeable about the program, university, and the campus."

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Women's Cross Country/Track & Field

Wayne Phipps

Women's Cross Country Head Coach

Washington State University

0 Stars For This Coach And Supporting Staff

Date: September 11, 2023

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

2.0

2.3

2.0

2.3

2.0

Tags

Disorganized Accessible Cool Direct Old School Mentality

"No this coach does not believe in you. He is not understanding, not a good leader, does not develop promote or encourage a team bond, and overall does not care. Do not run for wsu xc as a woman. You will be disappointed."

10

Women's Cross Country/Track & Field

CharLee Linton

Women's Cross Country/Track & Field Assistant Coach

Washington State University

The Worst Coach I Had Ever

Date: August 24, 2023

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

1.0

Tags

Disorganized Poor Communication

"Where do I even start with Charlee? She is the least qualified, least caring, absolutely worst coach I’ve ever had. And Wayne Phipps was a close second. She knew absolutely nothing about anything and just could not coach. I communicated so much with her and gave here a gold mine of information about how my training was going. She did nothing with any of this information and would continuously ignore us, never being bothered to do anything for us. You could ask her a question about anything and she would never have a real answer. The only thing she could do right was time us. That’s literally the ONLY thing she could do because she couldn’t even drive well (almost crashed us several times). "

22

Women's Cross Country/Track & Field

Wayne Phipps

Women's Cross Country Head Coach

Washington State University

Worst Decision Of My Life: Coming Here

Date: August 24, 2023

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

2.0

2.3

2.0

2.3

2.0

Tags

Disorganized Accessible Cool Direct Old School Mentality

"I have tried to repress my memories from my experiences here as they have ruined me mentally and physically. But I believe this deserves to be heard. Wayne Phipps does not care about his athletes. He does care about anything but a paycheck. He ran me into the ground for my whole career and now I have permanent medical issues that I am dealing with as a result. Wayne does not know how to coach women. He would overtrain all us with no explanation. We all had the exact same workouts regardless of our individual needs and would give us all the exact same coaching advice. The only difference was our mileage. Now the men? They would get individualized advice. I worked so hard, put in extra hours in the training room, worked with the strength and conditioning coach on my own time, and I never got anything in return. I began having medical episodes while I was on the team, sometimes in races, and both my coaches got mad at me and blamed me for them and cut me from the travel team. These episodes were worsened by the rampant over training. We only had one easy run a week. The rest of the week was tempo, speed work, long run (expected to be progressive) mid week progressive long run, and easy run with speed intervals after. Sometimes we did 2 hard workouts a day and we were all completely destroyed. I went to his office and asked him to write me different workouts because the workouts in high school made me faster than his did. He said this wasn’t high school anymore and that I had to deal with it. Yup. That’s a great coach. You cannot train women in this manner. This is why were all super overtrained and every single one of us was injured. Not to mention we had over 20 hours of practice a week, he would change our practice locations and times at the last minute all the time, he ignored you if you weren’t fast even though it was his fault. He would also force us to request activities on our days off, basically making us go to things that were supposed to be optional according to the NCAA. We filled official complaints with the head of athletics and they did nothing. He needs to be fired and he needs to go. I will not get into the more traumatizing experiences I had including being left behind on one of our meet ups but I will forever be trying to forget what I experienced here. Above are the basic details that anyone should know. Do what you will with that information."

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Women's Cross Country/Track & Field

Wayne Phipps

Women's Track & Field Head Coach

Washington State University

Con Man, Lies To Kids Faces About Scholarship For Months On End. If You Deserve Money Good Luck Even Getting A Response For Months On End

Date: May 14, 2023

By Other

1.4

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

2.0

2.3

2.0

2.3

2.0

Tags

Disorganized Accessible Cool Direct Old School Mentality

"If I could put a 0 star for honesty I would. As a former student athlete of his he will lie to young kids faces as long as it benefits his paycheck and tenure. Micromanager who is way too old timey and out of touch with his athletes. Also inherited a fantastic hurdle program and has gone nowhere but slowly downhill with his tenure. The best thing I can say is he’s genuinely invested in what he does, however that’s far overridden by his lack of updated knowledge, and more so by his tendencies to micro manage staff to the point of leaving."

18

Women's Soccer

Matt Kagan

Women's Soccer Assistant Coach

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

He Should Not Be Coaching Women.

Date: May 11, 2023

By Other

1.2

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

1.0

1.5

1.0

Tags

Poor Communication

"Matt Kagan got fired from Oregon State. When he came on at Oregon State, he brought a very intense energy which the team responded well to. However, he treated players very poorly. He told players that were injured to their face that they did not matter, he tried to make players get other players on the team to quit, and more. During a practice one time, he got in the assistant coach's face at the time and they almost started physically fighting. He was the worst coach I have ever had, and OSU made him quit. He doesn't know anything about being a goalkeeper and he is the goalkeeper coach at Washington State. He is a guy that didn't have much of a playing career at all, and decided to become a coach, which is totally fine- you don't have to be a great player to be a good coach. But, he treats players very poorly and has a very big ego. He told players at Oregon State that we were not allowed to be injured. If you were injured, you got into trouble. He is an abusive coach and has no room in the women's game. "

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Women's Campus Visit

Soccer

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Great Community And Support By Former Grads

Date: January 1, 2023

By Other

2.0

Overall

Team Dynamic

Host Interaction

Coaching Staff Interaction

Coach Player Interaction

Got To Know Team

4.0

1.0

3.0

2.0

1.0

Tags

Intense Direct Accessible Cool Disorganized

"The Campus for a Athlete that likes wide open Spaces is awesome. Small City, proud tradition, supporters everywhere . Was flying to games out of state and kept hearing constant "Go Cougs" calls everywhere from former graduates ect when you are wearing your Coug gear when traveling. A bit of a partying school just visit on a Saturday morning go down greek row and see the aftermath ( cleaned up after ever day though). Area Culture is small community looking out for its own mentality including its students which are big part of their local community. The Coug Community is a real experience that is real and can be felt. My kid was connected with player that was on probation , so not the best ambassador to show a new recruit but chosen by coaching staff. Nice person but was not able to give the best experience on a overnight visit to incoming student. "

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Women's Soccer

Todd Shulenberger

Women's Soccer Head Coach

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

8 Year Of Wsu History Of Lying To High Percentage Players And Families About Financials

Date: January 1, 2023

By Other

1.6

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

1.3

1.0

1.3

2.8

1.0

Tags

Intense Poor Communication Old School Mentality Fitness Is Important Disorganized

"Latest Version of this coach is back to his old ways of constantly changing financials of most of his promises to players. Tells players and parents what they want to hear and then later changes financials. Tells players everything is good after Spring Season and then when fall comes changes all financial promises without telling any players there is a change, they sign their paperwork in August and then parents get unexpected Bills on education and Living expenses. HE has a long history lying to parents and players all the way back to his 2nd years as Head coach. He has a disrespectful bullying attitude towards players so they are afraid to question him about financials along with never answering emails about why financials have changed. Even if players follow all rules of team, School, and are willing to work at anything to get better. He chooses to only develops his preferred players and rest of players watch practices if he does not believe they are " Quality Players" . by a goal or more multiple times against better culture programs that only have less then 6 shots on goal or less) Watch some games and see the 20-36 shots on goal individual mentality that has been created. Possession is individual based along with defense which is really sad as there is some quality players they want to succeed. There is no thought of quality shooting vs quantity ( stats don't lie). Their are some great players that are good people but their is a horrible culture created when coaches create a i dont want to hear from you culture and win at all costs mentality. Style of play is all individual , how can this build a positive team Culture with Heart and caring about each other. 2022 results and stats tell that system is designed as individual play and he is not developing team just attempting player pment. Several have moved away from program or re committed to another college . Program has had winning ways and players have gone professional in past so if thats all you care about it could be a great place. "

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Men's Football

Nick Rolovich

Men's Football Head Coach

University of Hawaii (Manoa)

Best Coach For A Terrible Experience

Date: September 2, 2022

By Other

1.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.0

2.5

3.0

Tags

Accessible Cool Direct Intense Disorganized

"Terrible team culture, Insesnitive, favoritism, would single out players and embarrass them, unfair, unjust practices (turn a blind eye to players committing violations)"

0

Women's Swimming & Diving

Matt Leach

Women's Swimming & Diving Head Coach / Swimming

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Work Hard. See Results

Date: August 3, 2022

By Other

4.8

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.0

4.0

3.3

Tags

Easy To Get Along With Passionate About Coaching Positive Person Intense Knowledgeable

"Matt Leach is great Coach the only way you wouldn’t get along with him is because you are lazy and don’t work hard. "

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Women's Swimming & Diving

Matt Leach

Women's Swimming & Diving Head Coach / Swimming

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

You Got This!

Date: June 30, 2022

By Other

4.2

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.0

4.0

3.3

Tags

Easy To Get Along With Passionate About Coaching Positive Person Intense Knowledgeable

"Very nice, personable and loves working with youth and students. "

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Women's Soccer

Todd Shulenberger

Women's Soccer Head Coach

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Culture Of Frustration

Date: May 18, 2022

By Other

1.2

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

1.3

1.0

1.3

2.8

1.0

Tags

Intense Poor Communication Old School Mentality Fitness Is Important Disorganized

"There were always constant problems and tension among the team because of the coach. Even his staff does not appreciate working for him and players do not truly listen to him. There is not a culture of respect or excellence but rather of fear and frustration. He will work with you if you have personal problems but expects you to be the exact same person on the field despite those problems. There is also never any room for error. I was a four year starter and wish I had transferred. "

1

Women's Volleyball

Burdette Greeny

Women's Volleyball Associate Head Coach / Recruiting Coordinator

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Will Not Be Outworked

Date: April 21, 2022

By Other

5.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

5.0

Tags

Direct Dedicated To Players Great Leader Intense Passionate About Coaching

"Burdette does an amazing job with motivating the team and his precise acumen for a statistical based approach to game strategy. In a highly intense atmosphere, he has a keen ability to bring out maximum performance of student athletes."

0

Women's Volleyball

Jennifer Greeny

Women's Volleyball Head Coach

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

National Championship Caliber

Date: April 21, 2022

By Other

5.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

5.0

Tags

Accessible Cool Direct Intense Honest

"I have followed this program for several years. Jen and her staff do incredible work and bring a family oriented coaching style to the table. She and Burdette and their assistants have created a sustained, successful program that cares for players. "

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Women's Swimming & Diving

Matt Leach

Women's Swimming & Diving Head Coach / Swimming

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Date: October 29, 2020

By Verified Athlete

1.2

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.0

4.0

3.3

Tags

Easy To Get Along With Passionate About Coaching Positive Person Intense Knowledgeable

"Mentally abusive. Gets by on the guise of a "family" atmosphere. Genuinely does not care about his athletes whatsoever just the times they produce. "

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Women's Crew/Rowing

Jane LaRiviere

Women's Crew/Rowing Head Coach / Rowing

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Date: May 28, 2020

By Verified Athlete

3.8

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.7

3.0

3.3

4.3

Tags

Accessible Direct Intense Cool

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Women's Crew/Rowing

Jane LaRiviere

Women's Crew/Rowing Head Coach / Rowing

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Date: May 27, 2020

By Verified Athlete

3.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

3.7

3.0

3.3

4.3

Tags

Accessible Direct Intense Cool

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0

Women's Cross Country/Track & Field

Wayne Phipps

Women's Track & Field Head Coach

Washington State University

Date: May 26, 2020

By Verified Athlete

5.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

2.0

2.3

2.0

2.3

2.0

Tags

Disorganized Accessible Cool Direct Old School Mentality

"the best decision of my life was to come to WSU and be coached by Wayne, he is a super knowledgeable and motivational coach that drives every one of his athletes to be great!"

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Women's Basketball

Kamie Ethridge

Women's Basketball Head Coach

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Date: April 7, 2020

By Verified Athlete

3.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.7

4.6

4.9

4.6

Tags

Accessible Cool Direct Intense

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0

Women's Basketball

Kamie Ethridge

Women's Basketball Head Coach

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Date: April 7, 2020

By Verified Athlete

5.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.7

4.6

4.9

4.6

Tags

Accessible Cool Direct Intense

"She’s the most amazing person and she’s very intense in everything she do"

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Women's Basketball

Kamie Ethridge

Women's Basketball Head Coach

Washington State University

NCAA DI • Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference | CCAC

Date: April 7, 2020

By Verified Athlete

5.0

Overall

Caring

Motivational

Knowledgeable

Honest

4.7

4.6

4.9

4.6

Tags

Accessible Cool Direct Intense

"Best coach I have ever had. She inspire me. I am lucky to have her as a coach. "

0

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