Vandals AD Terry Gawlik should be fired – Orange County Register

University of Idaho director of athletics Terry Gawlik is the target of increasing demands that university president C. Scott Green fire her for what current and former Vandals volleyball players, their parents and a growing number of alumni and university employees allege has been her failure to effectively address the alleged continued bullying of players by head coach Chris Gonzalez.

Gawlik has prioritized supporting and protecting Gonzalez, a former U.S. national team coach, who she hired prior to the 2022 season, over the mental health and safety of members of the team, according to players, parents, and alumni in a series of interviews and emails.

“Terry is a big proponent of Title IX and she’s on all these (NCAA) committees but you need to be fired,” Dave Green, the father of former Vandals libero Emmy Green and the cousin of university president C. Scott Green, said of Gawlik. “You said you were going to protect these women. She didn’t do (expletive). That pisses me off. That pisses me off. I really thought Terry was going to do the right thing and she didn’t. Vandals are loyal and to (us) Terry is (expletive). Terry needs to be gone.”

Former Vandals outside hitter Marissa Drange echoed a number of current and former Idaho players.

“I absolutely think she should be fired,” Drange, who transferred after the 2022 season and helped Trinity reach the NCAA Division 3 Final Four last fall, said in an email to the Southern California News Group. “She ignored the concerns that have been brought to her over the past two seasons and continues to show little regard for the welfare of the athletes she is supposed to protect.”  “She ignored the concerns that have been brought to her over the past two seasons and continues to show little regard for the welfare of the athletes she is supposed to protect.”

The University of Idaho’s official student body government also released a statement on Friday in support of the women’s volleyball players.

“The Associated Students of the University of Idaho stands firmly with our fellow students on the UIdaho volleyball team’s right to a respectful and healthy college experience,” the ASUI said in the statement. “The reports outlined in the Orange County Register in no way reflect what the student experience should be for anyone attending the University of Idaho. They are of great concern and deserve immediate attention,

“…The women of the UIdaho volleyball have demonstrated strength and courage in standing up for themselves as we all should against all forms of harassment and bullying.”

Seven members of the Green family have earned degrees from Idaho including Leon Green, an uncle of Dave Green, who was an All-American football player for the Vandals in the 1930s and later returned to the university to serve as a professor, department head, athletic director and lead the drive to build the Kibbie Dome, the school’s indoor football…