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Raising Athletes: Dad punched out by Pop Warner football coach

  • MKelly · 1 month ago
    Despite the parent being insulting and calling the coach a Fat Bas**** the coach needs a little self control.

    WILMINGTON - A Pop Warner football coach accused of punching a parent hard enough to cause severe facial injuries after a verbal spat during a practice last week will face aggravated assault and battery charges next month, authorities said yesterday.


    Police filed charges yesterday in Woburn District Court against William D. Reynolds, the same day Michael D. VonKahle spent several hours at Massachusetts General Hospital undergoing evaluation and treatment for his injuries, including a fractured eye socket, broken nose, and torn rotator cuff on his shoulder.

    Reynolds has been suspended from the league in connection with the Friday incident, and further action against him, including the possibility of being banned from coaching in the league, will be taken up in a Pop Warner board meeting in the off-season, officials said. His former team, in the C category, was led by assistant coaches in a game on Sunday. Reynolds had coached in the league for at least three years before taking off several seasons and returning this year.

    A guy this intense probably isn't cut out for coaching at any level let alone a C level team. Last I knew, C was below A and B.
  • michflynn · 1 month ago
    I'm not from the area but I too have a child who is an athlete. I tend to be the parent who speaks up when I feel it's needed especially while parents I'm sitting with coax me on because they too feel the need to but just dont as not to blackball their child. I either speak with the coach after a game or by e-mail if I feel i'm being ignored then thats when as a parent you need to go to the association.