Coach teaches "riotgear" style sportsmanship

[Ma Huang Sor]

Should have cuffed him off the back of the head after too, right? Teach the little bastards a lesson. How's a coach supposed to instill hatred in kids anyway? I mean this is hockey we're talking about, right? Little fuckers, beat them all up.

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A junior hockey coach in Vancouver has reportedly been arrested and released and is awaiting charges after he tripped a 13-year-old boy during a postgame handshake line last weekend. The UBC Hornets coach, Martin Tremblay, had just coached his team to a 5-4 victory before the classless postgame antics were unleashed. As you can see from the video above that Richmond Steel manager Tammy Hohlweg shared with LarryBrownSports.com, Tremblay clearly tripped two of the Richmond players.

Hohlweg, who saw the entire situation unfold, says one of the boys who was tripped suffered a broken wrist and will be in a cast for two weeks.

“He was just trying to shake hands,” Hohlweg explained. “The game was over. No matter what happens in a game, our rule is you shake hands, you do what you’re supposed to do at the end.”

After the trip, the crowd presumably began yelling at Tremblay. As you can see from the screenshot below from this video, he responded by giving them the finger as his players yelled alongside him and one of them threw a water bottle at the glass.

“Actually seeing it is horrifying,” Hohlweg said. “He should not be allowed around kids. No more coaching for this coach. If a coach is like that, the kids will feed off that – the kids will react and do that too.”

Regardless of what the 13-year-old could have possibly done during the game to anger Tremblay, there’s absolutely no excuse for that type of behavior. The fact that he chose to trip a young boy and then turn around and flip people off immediately afterward is disturbing, to say the least. Hohlweg is right that he has no business being allowed around kids after that.

We’ve seen players do some pretty messed up things that deserve punishment and even coaches who get suspended for no reason, but Tremblay has to go.

[Donovan]

When my kid played little league there were a few coaches who went way overboard in the quest for a win. Saw one get in a screaming match, one who spent most of every practice teaching kids stupid trick loophole plays like "hide the ball" and "lean into it to get a base hit."
Poor sportsmanship all around.

[username]

When my daughter was 10, a soccer coach from the other team was kicked off the field for arguing with the referee. He went and sat in his car and watched the rest of the game from there. Idiot.

I admit though, two times I've had referees ask me to shut up. Some of them are very particular about anything they perceive as instructions from people other than the coach. I probably said something stupid like "run to the ball" and bam, next thing you know the referee was telling me to be quiet. Kind of embarrassing.

[Ma Huang Sor]

I'll tell you what. Our high school lacrosse team had it's first season this past school year. We never had a girls lacrosse team at Stowe prior to this.

These girls went 1-14 and never missed a practice and played like they had won every game. Vermont has one of the most competitive high school lacosse leagues in the country, in fact the yearly national Jamboree is played here in our fields, host to close to 20k players from across the country.

I REALLY don't know what else to say here.

[Tammy75]

My Stepdaughter is 11 and she refused to play softball this year even though she is an awesome player. Mostly due to her Mom embarrassing her to beyond the ends of the world. I stopped going to her games after the first year she played because I was embarrassed how so many of the parents and coaches acted.

[Riotgear]

TROPHIES FOR EVERYONE!!

[koko]

What a dick. I remember when i remember when i was younger and still played sports...the worst i remember us doing as "revenge" would be to spit on our palms before the postgame handshake, and those games were few and far between. More commonly it'd be that you would just pull your hand away to "diss" certain players. Oh we were some wild kids lol.

Under these circumstances i wouldn't blame the kids parents sue that coach for more than just medical expenses (if that's even a factor with the health care in Canada?).

[ramseycat]

A few years ago one of the football coaches for the Junior Plainsmen would go scout out the other teams practices and games. He was so hard on his team but they did win every game. The coach was a complete dick to his players, the parents, and the other coaches. All so he could have a winning team. And these were FIFTH graders - junior tackle. I can only imagine how he is going to be when his son gets into high school.

[koko]

And these were FIFTH graders - junior tackle. I can only imagine how he is going to be when his son gets into high school.

ok I can understand taking sports more seriously than "just go out there and have fun kids" and i don't think there's anything wrong with some healthy competition.

But jesus christ. 5^th grade?! lighten the fuck up pops.

[Donovan]

There's a difference between "no keeping score" and "showing some class in victory and defeat."

[ramseycat]

And these were FIFTH graders - junior tackle. I can only imagine how he is going to be when his son gets into high school.

ok I can understand taking sports more seriously than "just go out there and have fun kids" and i don't think there's anything wrong with some healthy competition.

But jesus christ. 5^th grade?! lighten the fuck up pops.

Yep 5^th grade. He was like a drill sargent. It was ridiculous.

[Ma Huang Sor]

They just let our field hockey high school coach go after 45 years in service for much the same reasons. She was a "win at any cost" type coach and would often scream at and berate her players after they won even for not trying hard enough. Many people hated her and they finally conspired to dump her, even after naming the high school field hockey field after her.

She got results though...over 500 wins and 15 state championships. It was like the best highschool field hockey organization ever.

She also taught driver's ed on the side too. Terrorized both my girls into not driving until they were much older, and my son wouldn't even take drivers ed because she was the only "teacher".

Part of this is those were the only "classes" she could actually teach, because she never got a teaching degree.