Ashton Schaffer said she and her teammates on the club women’s ice hockey team often talked about Josh Brandwene’s behavior. It seemed every player, even the ones who received a lot of ice time, felt the same way about the man who was coaching the club team before transitioning to Penn State’s first Division-I team.
Schaffer said she remembers once talking with a group of girls to the team captain about their lack of ice time. The conversation quickly got back to Brandwene, and the girls who voiced their complaints were brought into a meeting with him while traveling for an away game.