When you’re a college sports team that has had a successful enough season, you’ve made it to national post-season competitions, it’s not unrealistic to expect accommodations equal to, or somewhere even close to, the “home” team’s.
For Stony Brook Women’s Lacrosse team, their accommodations for the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA tournament at Syracuse were nowhere near what any team should have, and even further from the Syracuse team’s. The women of Stony Brook were not only not given a locker room, they were given a tent with mud floors to change in.
Coach Joe Spallina posted a video of the tent, which appeared to be one you’d rent for a graduation party, and later called attention to the conditions during a postgame presser. He handled it like a true pro, letting them know that women deserve better and reiterated, he was not blaming the team’s loss on that.
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