Baylor University ‘Heading’ to Federal Court After Former Female Soccer Player Suffers Multiple Traumatic Brain Injuries
By Gina McKlveen
Former Baylor University women’s soccer star Eva Mitchell filed a complaint last month in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas claiming that Baylor knew Mitchell sustained multiple concussions and failed to protect her from “repetitive, aggressive, and unnecessary heading drills.”
The “drills” were conducted during practice by then head coach Paul Jobson using overinflated soccer balls that were fired from a high velocity machine, which cause