Coronado Volleyball Recruiting Scandal

are looking into just that … and if coach raul lawrence recruited several freshman girls to transfer into his program. reporter darren hunt has a story you’ll see… … only on abc-seven! “we knew there might possibly b some problems with some of the existing girls.” mitch morgan’s daughter mackenna was cut from the coronado freshman volleyball team. he thinks it was to make room for transfers. “one of the club coaches an coach lawrence actually were having a discussion regarding keeping his team together and what he actually thought of the girls that were on the team itself … definitely against uil rules.” the committee determined at least 8 of 14 freshman transfers received a recruitment email from lawrence. “it was a group of concerne parents that said, you know what, this needs to stop … our kids got left out in the cold.” “it’s unclear how many girl were allegedly recruited by coach lawrence, however, morgan handed me this packet of information containing several letters from parents, many of them anonymous, saying their daughters were recruited.” “that email was dated january 6th and it was from coach lawrence.” christin brandl’s daughter sofia sifuentes was one of several girls the committee found to be recruited by lawrence. “i find its an embarrassment to the episd that they took children out of class and kept them out of school most of the day to debate whether this email was sent or not sent.” “i don’t think coach lawrence i a bad guy, i think it’s one of those things where the pressure to win at all costs, causes people to do things they shouldn’t … lawrence is expected to learn his penalty at the next committee meeting, october 21st. darren hunt, abc-7. the girls found to be recruited are ineligible to play on varsity for a year, but can still play on the freshman and j-v teams. no comment from coach lawrence or franklin coach flo valdez, who made the allegation. after years of suffering from flat retention and graduation rates