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University of Maryland Baltimore County women's lacrosse head
coach Tony Giro is no longer with the team, school spokeswoman
Dinah Winnick said in a statement. She gave no reason for the
dismissal.
Five players have been suspended from the school after allegedly
making violent threats against teammates.
Athletic director Tim Hall told local media the mostly junior
and senior players made the comments threatening to hurt
freshman teammates on March 6 in an online chat group.
Hall identified the students as Alyssa Semones, Brittany
Marquess, Mackenzie Reese, Amber Kovalick and Meghan Milani.
The Baltimore Post-Examiner website obtained 16 pages of text
screenshots containing the posts. In one text, a player asked if
she could threaten the freshmen.
Another player responded, “Can we just kill them?” One replied,
“I’ll pitch in.”
Kovalick, Milani, Reese and Semones apologized in a statement on
Monday. The investigation is continuing.
(Reporting by John Clarke; Editing by Ian Simpson, Mohammad
Zargham and Eric Walsh)
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