UNC women’s hoops coach Sylvia Hatchell resigns amid allegations of berating players and racial remarks
North Carolina’s Sylvia Hatchell resigned Thursday amid accusations of pressuring players to compete while hurt and making racially offensive remarks.
Hatchell resigned Thursday, according to a release the university sent out overnight, after an independent investigation “led us to conclude that the program needed to be taken in a new direction,” according to Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham. North Carolina announced the move hours after The Washington Post informed officials about the contents of this story.
Last month, Cunningham faced a room full of parents outraged at what their daughters had told them about their treatment at North Carolina, according to several people at the meeting. The meeting in Chapel Hill, N.C., on March 28 — which Cunningham participated in via teleconference, because he was in Kansas City, Mo.
“We’ve all learned we need to go outside UNC . . . in order to learn what’s actually wrong with our child,” one mother said in a phone interview. In 2015-16, one season after going 26-9 and reaching the round of 16 in the NCAA tournament, the Tar Heels stumbled to a 14-18 finish. Hatchell was so desperate for players that season that, after North Carolina’s volleyball team finished its season, she convinced one of its players to join the basketball team.
“It didn’t make any sense to anybody,” the father of another player said. “She was dragging her leg around, and they just put her back out there.” A few weeks later, Fuller wrote an open letter, published on North Carolina’s athletic website, that praised Hatchell and her assistants for the “non-stop encouragement” they provided.
Hurt vs. injured Hatchell berated the four injured players at a practice early in the 2017-18 season, parents said they were told by their daughters. Later in the practice, the players told their parents, Hatchell told her team they needed to know the difference between being injured and being hurt, and to develop the toughness to play through the latter.
If their daughter had been “more committed” and found a way to get healthy enough to play, Calder told them, according to the parents, the Tar Heels would have won a few more games. Their daughter let the team down, Calder said, according to the player’s parents. Player exodus If Cunningham disciplined Hatchell and her staff at all after the 2017-18 season regarding treatment of injured players, it had no visible impact on their conduct this season, parents said.
Watts learned days later she actually had a torn tendon in her knee the entire time. She is among four current players who have filed paperwork seeking to transfer.
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