Boston College Soccer Alums Defend Coach After Alex Cooper Allegations

Numerous former Boston College girls’s soccer gamers are talking out in assist of the coach on the heart of Alex Cooper‘s sexual harassment allegations … saying their interactions with the staffer have been drastically totally different.

TMZ Sports activities obtained a letter from a consultant of BU Girls’s Soccer alumni — signed by 99 former Terriers athletes — which states whereas they don’t look to “diminish or discredit anybody’s particular person expertise,” they felt it was essential to share their very own views as a “united group.”

Within the letter, the alums say “we categorically by no means felt unsafe” beneath coach Nancy Feldman’s management … including, “We have been by no means liable to or witness to inappropriate conduct or something that might be characterised as sexual harassment.”

“As a frontrunner, she approached on daily basis with professionalism, making choices in service of the success of the staff.”

The group — that includes alums spanning a number of many years — went on to say coach Feldman’s affect did not finish after their collegiate careers … as she “has remained an vital a part of our lives, and we will stand by her.”

As we beforehand reported, Cooper claimed in her “Name Her Alex” documentary that Feldman was inappropriate along with her throughout her time on the staff within the mid-2010s — and would ask questions on her love life.

Cooper claimed she even acquired benched from a sport for not disclosing sure intimate info … and when her household approached college officers over the matter, nothing got here of it.

Actually, Alex not too long ago joined Dax Shepard on his podcast, Armchair Expert, the place she additional opened up on her alleged expertise at BU, explaining issues took a flip throughout her sophomore yr after her coach started to inquire about her private life.

Cooper says she felt trapped, and since she was on an athletic scholarship, she believed talking up might’ve meant shedding the profitable grant. In different phrases, Alex did not suppose she had a lot recourse on the time.

AC additionally revealed she wished to file a lawsuit again within the day, however in the end opted in opposition to it. Regardless of that call, Cooper says she’s relieved she has an enormous platform to inform her story.

As for BU, the college released a statement final week … saying, “Boston College has a zero-tolerance coverage for sexual harassment. We now have a strong system of sources, assist and workers devoted to scholar wellbeing and an intensive reporting course of via our Equal Alternative Workplace.”