Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson recounts a series of racial slurs yelled at her during Friday's Duke-BYU volleyball game. There is a time and a place.
South Carolina's Dawn Staley decided to call off the schools' home-and-home series because she didn't want her players to be subjected to verbal abuse.
The two-time national championship coach did not want to put her players in that situation after hearing the account of Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson.
The team that won the NCAA title this year was at the track on Sunday to serve as the pace car driver.
She talked to several people and looked at all the facts.
She said before the race that she woke up with the same feeling that she should not put her players in that situation.
"We are extremely disappointed in South Carolina's decision to cancel our series and ask for patience with the on-going investigation" was posted on the account of the women's basketball team. We believe that the solution to racism is to work together.
The two men spoke to Richardson.
The first game of the season was supposed to be at home against BYU, and then the team would travel to Utah for the next two seasons.
She said she's had talks with some schools about replacing the opener with something else.
She didn't tell her players about it until the next day.
She said that the decision was a selfish one. I was only thinking about basketball.
The South Carolina athletic director supported her decision. She didn't want Richardson to relive the incident and she didn't want him to be involved.
"I wanted to make sure our players didn't have to go through that." I don't have the words to comfort them if that happens.
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