{"id":1799303,"date":"2023-01-08T21:04:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T02:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1799303"},"modified":"2023-01-08T21:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T02:04:41","slug":"college-soccer-player-says-she-was-benched-for-refusing-to-kneel-for-blm-now-shes-getting-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-soccer-player-says-she-was-benched-for-refusing-to-kneel-for-blm-now-shes-getting-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"College Soccer Player Says She Was Benched For Refusing To Kneel For BLM \u2013 Now Shes Getting Paid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcollege-soccer-player-says-she-was-benched-for-refusing-to-kneel-for-blm-now-shes-getting-paid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1799303&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Former Virginia Tech Soccer playerKiersten Hening receives six-figure settlement as she waives federal lawsuit against coach she claims benched her for refusing to kneel in support Litigation Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/roanoke.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/virginia-tech-paid-100-000-in-ex-athletes-lawsuit-settlement-attorney-says\/article_cfcbc3d6-8c8f-11ed-b60f-5bbe7642546e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> of The Roanoke Times, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/08\/kiersten-hening-ex-virginia-tech-soccer-player-who-refused-blm-kneel-gets-100k\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hening<\/a> accepted $100,000 settlement to get out of litigation &#8211; her attorney Cameron Norris also confirmed that the settlement did not require either party to admit any wrongdoing.(* ) was the team&#8217;s starter in her first and second seasons &#8211; but she claims she was benched after deciding not to participate in the pre-game unity ceremony, which was planned to honor the <\/p>\n<p>Hening shortly after his death. Black Lives Matter support. George Floyd, the head coach of the women&#8217;s soccer team, said he abused her during halftime of that game. <\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/virginia-tech-soccer-player-benched-for-refusing-to-kneel-awarded-100k\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blamed<\/a> Charles \u201cChugger\u201d Adair said he then limited her on-site time and claimed in the lawsuit that she was being punished simply for exercising her Sherights. First Amendment ended up leaving the team after two games, saying the manager had started She attacking them. \u201ccampaign of abuse and retaliation\u201d Filed <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/who-kiersten-hening-why-soccer-player-suing-coach-not-taking-knee-1767164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The suit<\/a> in 2021 seeking March reinstatement as a team member and she is entitled to an unspecified amount of damages. Hening, However time elapsed since graduation from filing \u2013 she has no intention of returning to complete her qualification. Hening It is also stated in the lawsuit that she took initiatives for social justice, but she did not support <\/p>\n<p>She due to concerns about her Black Lives Matter as an organization, she is still \u201ctactics and core tenets of its mission statement, including defunding the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adair the champion of women&#8217;s football Coach, issued a statement after the settlement claiming he was confirmed, adding Virginia Tech \u2014 Coach(* ) (@Coach\u201cI am pleased the case against me has been closed and I am free to move forward clear of any wrong doing \u2026 It\u2019s unfortunate, but this ordeal was about a disappointment and disagreement about playing time. Today, we have clarity that this case lacked any standing, and without evidence, the truth has prevailed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OrDkD0Khpl\">pic.twitter.com\/OrDkD0Khpl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>) Chugger the settlement will not be reviewed and approved by state andChugger officials is final. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoachChugger\/status\/1610687080375488537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Virginia Tech soccer player Kiersten Hening received a six-figure settlement for dropping a federal lawsuit against the coach she claimed had benched her for refusing to take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter. According to a report from The Roanoke Times, Hening accepted a settlement of $100,000 to walk away from the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1799306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9279,13956,4023,6202,9280,9413,4016,7397,3618,7478,6195],"class_list":["post-1799303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-benched","tag-blm","tag-college","tag-daily","tag-kneel","tag-paid","tag-player","tag-refusing","tag-riot","tag-soccer","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1799306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}