Former James River soccer star suing Virginia Tech head coach
James River product Kiersten Hening has filed a federal lawsuit against Virginia Tech head women’s soccer coach Chugger Adair, alleging that she was forced off the team after refusing to kneel with her teammates prior to a match this past fall.
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James River product Kiersten Hening has filed a federal lawsuit against Virginia Tech head women’s soccer coach Chugger Adair, alleging that she was forced off the team after refusing to kneel with her teammates prior to a match this past fall.
In the lawsuit, filed March 3 in the Roanoke Division of the United States District Court’s Western District of Virginia, Hening alleges that, because she refused to kneel, Adair “benched her, subjected her to repeated verbal abuse, and forced her off the team.”
The suit claims that refusing to kneel is protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.