QUINTIN JAMES
Assistant Sports Editor
Last month, the Fredonia lacrosse team went to Florida for the tournament “Spring Fling.”
When the team left for Florida, their head coach was Amy Simon, who was in her third year in the position. Simon, after graduating from Fredonia in 2012, was hired in June 2014 to coach for her alma mater. In her three years at Fredonia, she had a 27-29 coaching record.
After the lacrosse team came back from Florida, there were new coaches at the helm for women’s lacrosse. On the Fredonia website, it says that women’s soccer coach Chris Case and women’s basketball coach Linda Hill-MacDonald were now co-interim head coaches for Fredonia lacrosse.
With the sudden change in coaching that early in the season, many questions arose as to why that occurred.
When Athletic Director Jerry Fisk was asked about what happened in Florida with the women’s lacrosse team, he directed all questions to the Director of HR Mike Daley saying, “I expect that none of the lacrosse team members have spoken, as they [were] instructed not to discuss.”
Daley addressed the question about the Florida trip by stating, “It is the policy of Fredonia to not discuss personnel matters with [anyone] other than those directly involved or their designated representative.”
Sports Informations Director Jerry Reilly, when asked about the topic, forwarded the question to Fisk where he reiterated that “no one can discuss a personnel issue or anything that allegedly happened . . .”
Multiple Fredonia coaches and players declined to comment.