Rating #48521 Details

A coach who utilizes fear as a method of control and chips away at player’s confidence. This is a coach who will make you lose the love of a sport you have dedicated your entire life to. She is manipulative and attempts to turn teammates against one another. She attempts to establish weird dynamics of “control” and “leaders” between friends but in reality she puts one or a few on a pedestal in order to get them to talk about other players and learn things about their personal life that they did not share with her. During meetings with players, she will often ask about other players, which essentially creates a gossiping culture on the team. To my knowledge there have been meetings with people who are not captains specifically to talk about other players and situations. In her two years at this school, she created an extremely negative culture so much so that it was not even fun to be apart of a team. On the field, she will randomly ice players out, taking them out of the game completely with little to no explanation. As mentioned before, she wanted everyone to be afraid of her, but unfortunately that mentality off the field transpired directly on to the field and she had almost an entire team that was afraid of making her angry and played timid. The mind games she plays with her team cause many of her players to lose their love for the sport and become a shell of the player they once were. One last comment about Tisdale is that she consistently finds creative ways to violate the 20hour rule by labeling many things as “optional” even though girls would get in a lot of trouble for not attending. This got to the point to where even when things were truly optional, girls were scared to leave the field because they were afraid of getting benched or in trouble. There is a difference between tough love and just being downright awful and many times this experience with her was just downright awful.