FAMU supports coach who has been at odds with some players.
Five months into her tenure with Florida A&M’s women’s bowling team, Capri Howard must hope the worst is behind her. The beginning couldn’t be much rockier for a first-year head coach.
Howard replaced former coach Karen Brown, who
“Without a chance to even begin shaping the future of our program, our coach was called names and disrespected regardless of her head coach status,” Holmes wrote. “This clearly reached a breaking point when the final, extremely disrespectful email was sent. Had any other athlete in any other sport sent their head coach an email like that, they’d be dismissed from the team as well, and their teammates would understand why.”
With four new bowlers joining Holmes and Spring Harris, the Rattlers finished eighth this month in the SWAC West Round-Up, the first tournament this semester. Holmes bowled a career-high 222 versus Southern. FAMU returns to action Feb. 2-4, in the SWAC East Round-Up, and has two more tournaments scheduled before the conference finals in March.
For Howard, her rookie season as a head coach can’t end soon enough.
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