Football Coach Sued For Allegedly Fracturing Player’s Collarbone

February 23, 2012 / Football
MLive.com, Aaron Foley

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2012/02/reports_roseville_middle_schoo.html

A football coach at a Roseville middle school is being sued for allegedly causing a 13-year-old player’s collarbone to fracture after tacking him during a rough practice.

The Macomb Daily reports that the father of the boy, Bernard Androsuk, is seeking damages from coach Joseph Hoff, an assistant coach at Roseville Middle School, over the October incident.

Mac Daily: “The players would attempt to tackle him while he charged toward them with a football in his arm,’ the lawsuit says. Immediately afterward, Alexander Androsuk complained about being injured, and, “Hoff responded by stating that Alexander was faking the injury,” the lawsuit says.

Last year, home video of the incident was aired on Fox 2 when the Androsuks were considering legal action.

Fox 2: Androsuk, who weighs 189 pounds and 5’6″ tall, is cut out of the last game of the season because of that fractured collarbone. Meanwhile, his dad is asking why an adult coach would actually don a helmet and take part in a hitting drill with twelve and 13-year-olds.

“You don’t want to know my true reaction. I’m not going to say it on TV, but I’m just going to say, at the least, really disgusted with the whole thing,” Bernard Androsuk told us.


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