Cherie Abner

[GBO52]

18 hours ago, tigerfan0020 said:

I hear it is Abner's to turn down and that Perry is taking over at Station Camp.

Yea, what I have heard too. Hopefully they announce it after spring break! 

[CarlPickens]

On 2/26/2022 at 10:58 AM, ballfan said:

A great coach for sure! Crazy parents and an administration that doesn't support it's coaches will destroy a program. GH has a lot of potential but some changes need to be made and it shouldn't have been Abner. She will probably end up in a better spot.

You must be her husband because you’re spouting trash. The parents were not the problem as she is her own worst enemy. The parents didn’t ask her to leave and neither did the GH admin. The county did after a formal investigation of her.

[CarlPickens]

On 3/8/2022 at 6:49 AM, GBO52 said:

Can't take a little tough love, hit the road! Coach Abner is a great coach with a coaching style that people may not like but it works and it hasn't ever killed anyone! 

She’s a bully and treats her players like dogs. the game has passed her by. Ask around and you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone familiar with her that will have anything good to say about her. She’s not a mentor at all 

[CarlPickens]

On 3/8/2022 at 11:10 AM, GBO52 said:

People are soft and parents enable the "you deserve" attitude too much. No one deserves anything you have to earn it. If what Coach did so was so bad, why don't you let us in on it because we have obviously been told two different stories. 

Would you want your son’s middle school coach to spit in your son’s face? I bet not… be she did this.

would you want your daughter’s high school coach kicking a ball at her face? Well, she did this too.

the days of Bobby Knight behavior is over 

[GBO52]

2 hours ago, CarlPickens said:

She’s a bully and treats her players like dogs. the game has passed her by. Ask around and you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone familiar with her that will have anything good to say about her. She’s not a mentor at all 

She was a great mentor.. I had her as a teacher and she always pushed me in class and encouraged me in my sport that wasn't even basketball. The only girls that I know of that don't/didn't  like her were the ones who never played.

 

About the spitting and kicking obviously I don't condone that and wouldn't appreciate anyone doing that to my son or daughter but there is two sides to every story and if it happened as apparent as you are making it sound then it would have been all over the news and this is the first I've heard about.... 

 

Regardless of the rumors and people who don't like her you can't deny that she is a good coach, and from my personal experience she was a great mentor and keep in mind I am a guy, I never even played basketball and had no ties to her or any of her family just had her as a PE teacher. 

 

I still stand on the fact that not all but a lot of parents think their kid deserves this or that and their child is a hard worker and blah blah blah but the reality is coaches are spending 20+ hours a week with your child and know a little more then you think. 

Regardless, she is no longer your problem so you shouldn't feel the need to get on a forum and talk about how bad she is... Thankfully she is a problem at Westmoreland now, and I am excited to see how big of a "problem" she is! Go Eagles! 

Edited April 13, 2022 by GBO52

[CarlPickens]

56 minutes ago, GBO52 said:

She was a great mentor.. I had her as a teacher and she always pushed me in class and encouraged me in my sport that wasn't even basketball. The only girls that I know of that don't/didn't  like her were the ones who never played.

 

About the spitting and kicking obviously I don't condone that and wouldn't appreciate anyone doing that to my son or daughter but there is two sides to every story and if it happened as apparent as you are making it sound then it would have been all over the news and this is the first I've heard about.... 

 

Regardless of the rumors and people who don't like her you can't deny that she is a good coach, and from my personal experience she was a great mentor and keep in mind I am a guy, I never even played basketball and had no ties to her or any of her family just had her as a PE teacher. 

 

I still stand on the fact that not all but a lot of parents think their kid deserves this or that and their child is a hard worker and blah blah blah but the reality is coaches are spending 20+ hours a week with your child and know a little more then you think. 

Regardless, she is no longer your problem so you shouldn't feel the need to get on a forum and talk about how bad she is... Thankfully she is a problem at Westmoreland now, and I am excited to how big of a "problem" she is! Go Eagles! 

I spoke only the truth and I absolutely know the spitting and kicking of the ball incidents happened. I only chose to comment because you and a couple of others were making comments about the admin and the parents being the problem when that’s not the case at all. 
Being a tough coach is one thing, but personally degrading players is poor form. She went over the line

[GBO52]

3 minutes ago, CarlPickens said:

I spoke only the truth and I absolutely know the spitting and kicking of the ball incidents happened. I only chose to comment because you and a couple of others were making comments about the admin and the parents being the problem when that’s not the case at all. 
Being a tough coach is one thing, but personally degrading players is poor form. She went over the line

Maybe you are right... From what I heard it was really only 2 or 3 parents that were upset and apparently there was enough pull from those parents to have the administration talk with her and she decided she didn't want to coach for someone without a backbone.... Also heard a majority of the girls were looking to leave now that Abner is gone... Either way 3 sides to every story, Person 1's, Person 2's and the truth! 

[ballfan]

11 minutes ago, GBO52 said:

Maybe you are right... From what I heard it was really only 2 or 3 parents that were upset and apparently there was enough pull from those parents to have the administration talk with her and she decided she didn't want to coach for someone without a backbone.... Also heard a majority of the girls were looking to leave now that Abner is gone... Either way 3 sides to every story, Person 1's, Person 2's and the truth! 

I think you are pretty close to the truth. I think Carl maybe one of those 2 or 3 parents.  I am always suspicious of a profile that creates an account just to criticize a person. Especially when that person is no longer of their concern.

[CarlPickens]

1 hour ago, ballfan said:

I think you are pretty close to the truth. I think Carl maybe one of those 2 or 3 parents.  I am always suspicious of a profile that creates an account just to criticize a person. Especially when that person is no longer of their concern.

Not a parent, but very familiar with the program and numerous players. I just wanted to set the record straight. I hope things work out for her, but there were numerous things that led to her being asked to leave. Regarding the parents, there  was an issue with one girl’s mother over whether concussion protocol was followed correctly that was heated and led to GH allowing her to transfer to Lebanon. Outside of this, I know of no other confrontations involving Abner and the parents. You can choose to believe what you want, but she’s responsible for the move and not the parents. 

[CarlPickens]

1 hour ago, GBO52 said:

Maybe you are right... From what I heard it was really only 2 or 3 parents that were upset and apparently there was enough pull from those parents to have the administration talk with her and she decided she didn't want to coach for someone without a backbone.... Also heard a majority of the girls were looking to leave now that Abner is gone... Either way 3 sides to every story, Person 1's, Person 2's and the truth! 

I know there was a very heated issue with one girl’s mother over injury protocol. It was bad enough that GH signed a release for her to transfer to Lebanon. Other than that I don’t know of any other parent/coach interactions. I realize you’re fond of coach Abner, but there were some issues going on behind the scenes. Bad enough to part ways with her, but not bad enough to blurt them out in public to try and ruin her career.

What you heard about the girls wanting to transfer now that she’s gone is backwards. They were wanting to leave or simply not play if she came back. It was a toxic situation