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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: Investigative narrative podcast episode blending host-led reporting, audio clips, interviews, and on-the-ground stories about emotional abuse in college sports.
- The Key Players:
- Host: Aisha Roscoe, NPR's Up First anchor, guiding the deep dive with empathy and probing questions.
- Reporters: Julia Haney and Elizabeth Santos, grad school collaborators turned investigative journalists, sharing a year's worth of findings on over 100 abuse allegations.
- The Vibe: Somber and intense, blending devastation (suicide, mental breakdowns) with underdog triumph (a jury verdict), ultimately educational on hidden systemic failures.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: Julia Haney and Elizabeth Santos**
- 2 (02:23) **Defining Emotional Abuse in College Sports**
- 3 (03:13) **Julia Pernsteiner's Abuse Allegations and Desperate Calls**
- 4 (06:03) **Pernsteiner's Death and Aftermath**
- 5 (09:42) **Broader Pattern of Allegations**
- 6 (12:32) **Maria and Marta Golich: Recruitment and Early Signs**
- 7 (18:49) **Escalating Abuse and Team Impact**
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Show Notes
March Madness is here. The high-stakes, sudden-death college basketball
tournament is a beloved tradition in American sports. For the players,
it’s a chance to showcase the skills they’ve developed through years of
hard training of the body and mind. In many cases, that push produces
incredible feats of athletic performance. But an investigation by
reporters Julia Haney and Elizabeth Santos has found instances in which
athletes allege that the push from coaches goes too far. Emotional abuse
by coaches, some athletes maintain, can cause lasting, even irreparable
damage. On this episode of The Sunday Story, we hear from athletes who
fought back.
*A warning that today’s story includes mentions of sexual and emotional abuse, suicide, bullying and includes explicit language.
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