Assabet Suspends Coach - Abuse Allegations - Boston Globe

Iced out: Elite youth hockey coaches at Assabet Valley suspended after abuse complaints

At a storied ice rink where the nationally renowned Assabet Valley girls’ program has produced several Olympic medalists, developed hundreds of top collegiate players, and captured scores of national championships with its youth teams, coaches have been suspended following complaints of abuse. The allegations have bitterly divided one of the nation’s premier, non-scholastic girls’ hockey teams. BOB HOHLER Iced out: Elite youth hockey coaches at Assabet Valley suspended after abuse complaints By Bob Hohler Globe Staff,February 15, 2020, 3:07 p.m. “Shut up, you whiny little bitch,” Dennis Laing told a member of his elite Assabet Valley Girls Hockey Under 16 team at a practice last year, according to complaints filed with league officials by the player and several teammates. Angry, too, were Laing’s assistant coaches, Bill Horan, and his daughter, Kelly Horan, an Assabet alum who went on to play for the University of Connecticut. “I seriously want to punch some of you girls in the face,” Bill Horan allegedly told the players. And when they complained to their parents, the girls said, Kelly Horan profanely denigrated them as wimps.  WHO DID THESE COACHES THINK THEY WERE? ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF MCC TV3 WHICH IS UNDER INVESTIGATION WHERE 'LAW ENFORCEMENT COULD BE IMPEDED" ??? Read the full story.