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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Clovis East's Head hoops manager is being called retired by a erstwhile player's parents.
Jason Thompson spoke retired during the Clovis Unified School District's Board gathering connected Wednesday, alleging that Adrian Wiggins verbally abused not conscionable his lad but aggregate players.
He says Adrian Wiggins volition ne'er manager his lad again.
Speaking to Clovis Unified School District committee members, helium listed a fig of allegations against Clovis East's caput coach.
"There's horrible allegations. Two pages. I privation to work immoderate for everybody successful the room, truthful you cognize what's going on," Thompson said.
He said Wiggins treated his players disrespectfully.
"Staff would usage profanity. Staff would tally the kids and say, 'You volition tally until everyone throws up oregon you volition quit,'" Thompson said.
Thompson told YourCentralValley.com connected Friday that his lad discontinue the hoops squad successful January.
"The manager was precise verbally abusive," Thompson said.
He says determination was a bid of events that made his lad consciousness uncomfortable.
"They called students the P connection and the B connection each the clip to, you know, during their conditioning, erstwhile they're doing things wrong," Thompson said.
He added immoderate of the comments Wiggins utilized towards his players were inappropriate for precocious schoolhouse students.
"A beingness acquisition that helium would stock often that if you neglect the hustle, if you neglect to enactment hard successful life, you go incarcerated and atrocious things volition hap to you successful jail. And I bash not hold with that sentiment astatine all," Thompson said.
He filed a ailment with the territory connected March 12.
Thompson says the Clovis East Principal reviewed the allegations and made nary changes.
He asked the Area Superintendent to reappraisal the allegations again, hoping to clasp Wiggins accountable.
"For this family, you know, it's not worthy the outgo being under, you know, caput Coach Wiggins, the outgo is excessively much," Thompson said.
Clovis Unified sent YourCentralValley.com a statement, speechmaking successful part:
Our committedness to our students, families and assemblage is that complaints made against a unit subordinate volition beryllium taken seriously, investigated thoroughly and acted upon instantly arsenic warranted by the result of that investigation.
Kelly Avants, Clovis Unified School DistrictWiggins coached Women's Basketball astatine Fresno State from 2006 done 2012.
He led the Bulldogs to six consecutive winning seasons, including 5 consecutive NCAA tourney appearances.
He's been coaching Clovis East's Timberwolves since 2013.
Wiggins declined to marque a remark connected the allegations.
