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Soccer Player Sues Coach, Claims She Was Singled out over Disapproval of BLM On 4/22/21 at 8:36 AM EDT A former soccer player at Virginia Tech is suing her former coach after claiming she was forced off the team for refusing to kneel. In the lawsuit, filed March 3 in the Roanoke Division of the United States District Court s Western District of Virginia, Kiersten Hening alleged she was marginalized coach Charles Chugger Adair for disagreeing with the school s support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Hening claimed that because she refused to kneel, he [Adair] benched her, subjected her to repeated verbal abuse, and forced her off the team. ....