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An assistant volleyball coach at Bountiful High School is suing the head coach, alleging he was verbally abusive to her daughters and failed to help one of the girls who was injured during a practice.
The Davis County School District is also listed as a defendant.
The volleyball coach and lead defendant is Lane Herrick. He spent 11 years as the baseball coach at Carbon High School, but was dismissed before the season began in 2007 over complaints from parents there that he was verbally abusive.
Clair and Patricia "Jill" Asay, who are married, according to the lawsuit, filed the complaint Friday in Utah's 2nd District Court. Jill Asay is the assistant volleyball coach.
The lawsuit accuses Herrick, 50, of a "pattern of mental and physical abuse," though much of what is described happened within 10 days of the lawsuit being filed.
On Aug. 28, one Asay daughter, according to the lawsuit, completed a packet that Herrick gave her asking how the volleyball coaching staff could improve.
Three days later, the suit says, Herrick yelled at the girl to come talk to him, led her into his office and yelled at her and told her what she wrote "ruined his weekend" and that she would lose her varsity position. Herrick also blamed the girl for things her sister wrote, the lawsuit said.
The complaint says Herrick at times got very close to the girl and she feared for her safety. When she left the room she got physically ill.
When Herrick saw the sister, he yelled at and grabbed her, the lawsuit says. Then he yelled at other players trying to comfort her.
An assistant coach, Joel Burton, was present for the episode and did nothing, the lawsuit says. Burton is named as a defendant, too.
Then on Sept. 2, the first Asay daughter was at practice and jumped to serve a ball, a ball from another court rolled underneath her feet and she landed on it and fell on her back. The lawsuit says Herrick did nothing even as the girl was crying on the floor.
The lawsuit also describes some occurrences that have no time references, including Herrick telling one of the girls "you suck" and asking the age at which her menstrual cycle started.
The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages.
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