The Chicago Red Stars ownership released a statement late Tuesday night, apologizing to "Christen Press, Jennifer Hoy, Samantha Johnson and those players who didn’t feel safe to come forward" amid the Rory Dames abuse allegations.
Less than 48 hours after losing to the Washington Spirit in the NWSL Championship, Dames resigned as the coach following an investigation conducted by The Washington Post that revealed multiple allegations of emotional and verbal abuse.
Some of the allegations in the report include: texting players at all hours, asking players to spend significant time at lunches and dinners with him that he said were mandatory, joking that an Asian player should be smarter than how she was playing, commenting to religious players about their holidays, calling a player from Appalachia "trailer trash," comments on players' appearances, withholding family time off for a player due to her performance during a game and, on one instance, allegedly benching a player after she introduced him to her boyfriend.