{"id":160451,"date":"2026-02-28T09:43:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=160451"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:43:31","slug":"players-accuse-gcu-womens-soccer-coach-of-verbal-mental-physical-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=160451","title":{"rendered":"Players accuse GCU women&#8217;s soccer coach of verbal, mental, physical abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YcKH1Z0XjV0?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Former Grand Canyon University women&#8217;s soccer players criticize coaches&#8217; handling of team, seek an independent investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Some athletes are calling for the coaches&#8217; removal; GCU is standing behind the head coach and assistant coach after an internal inquiry. <\/p>\n<p>Read more here: https:\/\/bit.ly\/2DuL9Yh<\/p>\n<p>#GCU #GrandCanyonUniversity #CollegeSoccer<\/p>\n<p>For more Arizona news, sports and entertainment, follow azcentral on:<\/p>\n<p>Facebook &#8211; https:\/\/bit.ly\/2N2Xqqc<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/bit.ly\/2MsVLOM<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/bit.ly\/2nPxgwm<br \/>\nOnline &#8211; https:\/\/www.azcentral.com<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YcKH1Z0XjV0\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Grand Canyon University women&#8217;s soccer players criticize coaches&#8217; handling of team, seek an independent investigation. Some athletes are calling for the coaches&#8217; removal; GCU is standing behind the head&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10769,"featured_media":160452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}