Parent Attacks Coach’s Credibility in Bid To Show Racial Animus

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s ruling that a plaintiff failed to prove that a coach acted with racial animus when the coach declined to name her son to the varsity basketball team.   The incident leading to the litigation occurred when Head Coach David Edinger had a verbal altercation with students of another school, which was overheard by the plaintiff’s son, a student athlete. Edinger challenged the students and called them drug dealers and thug