Widespread ‘Name Her Daddy’ podcast host Alex Cooper claims she was sexually harassed throughout her time taking part in soccer at Boston College greater than a decade earlier.
The wrongdoer, based on Cooper’s new Hulu documentary, was the varsity’s long-time former coach, Nancy Feldman.
‘I felt a number of anger—anger at my coach, anger at my college, and anger on the system that allowed this to occur,’ Cooper stated within the Hulu documentary, as quoted by Vainness Honest. ‘I do not suppose anybody might’ve ready me for the lasting results that got here from this expertise. She turned one thing that I beloved a lot into one thing extraordinarily painful.’
Cooper’s allegations of undesirable consideration and invasive questions are corroborated by her former dormmate and teammate Alex Schlobohm. What’s extra, Cooper additional claimed she went to highschool officers about Feldman’s conduct, solely to have her issues dismissed.
Every day Mail has reached out to Boston College officers and Nancy Feldman for remark, as did Vainness Honest. Neither BU nor Feldman has issued a response to the declare.
‘It was this psychotic recreation of, ‘You wanna play? Inform me about your intercourse life. I’ve to drive you to your night time class, get within the automotive with me alone,’ Cooper claimed within the movie, Name Her Alex.
Widespread ‘Name Her Daddy’ podcast host Alex Cooper claims she was sexually harassed by a head coach throughout her time taking part in soccer at Boston College a decade earlier
‘I began making an attempt to spend as little time as attainable together with her. Taking completely different routes to observe the place I knew I would not run into her, throughout conferences, I’d attempt to sit as far-off from her as attainable. Actually something to not be alone with this girl.’
Typically Feldman would pull Cooper in to sit down subsequent to her on the sofa, the podcaster claimed, including that the coach would typically stare at her or place a hand on her thigh.
Frightened of Feldman’s energy over her personal scholarship, Cooper contacted attorneys who warned her of the potential penalties of taking authorized motion.
‘If I am gonna be actual with you, they’ll drag this on for years and this shall be your life,’ Cooper quoted the attorneys within the movie.
Finally Cooper approached college workers about the issue.
‘I need to play my senior yr,’ she stated, recalling the dialog. ‘I need to end out what I labored my total life for, however I can not play for this girl. They stated, ‘We’re not gonna fireplace her, however you’ll be able to preserve your total scholarship and that is that.’ No investigation. Inside 5 minutes, they’d solely dismissed every part I had been by means of.’
Alex Cooper, proprietor of Unwell Hydration (L) and Jessica Berman, commissioner of the NWSL (R) pose for a photograph previous to the NWSL the NWSL match between Bay FC and Angel Metropolis FC
This isn’t the primary time Cooper has referenced the alleged harassment. She advised The Athletic in 2022 that she deliberate to speak about it after she was ‘healed.’
‘I am going to discuss it in the future,’ Cooper stated. ‘I had a traumatic expertise occur in school with regard to soccer. It made me a stronger particular person. So, studying the instruments of competitiveness, resilience, having to realize confidence in your self. Though it was exhausting within the second, that does translate to who I’m right now because the host of ‘Name Her Daddy.’
Lately Cooper is a media titan after beginning her podcasting profession at Barstool Sports activities and shifting on to Spotify with a three-year, $60 million deal in 2021.
Feldman coached the BU Terriers since 1995, when the varsity first adopted girls’s soccer as a varsity sport, till 2022. Over that point, she guided the Terriers to 14 NCAA Event appearances, 13 convention titles and was twice named NSCAA Coach of the Yr.
