Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer and Lipscomb Academy soccer head coach Kevin Mawae parted methods on Friday, every week after the staff acquired a two-year postseason ban from the Tennessee Secondary College Athletic Affiliation (TSSAA) for a recruiting violation.
Lipscomb Academy headmaster Brad Schultz mentioned in an announcement to The Tennessean that Mawae and the academy “mutually agreed to half methods.”
“We recognize Kevin’s service as head of the teaching employees and for main the Mustang soccer staff because it transitioned into a better stage of competitors this season,” Schultz mentioned within the assertion.
Mawae served as head coach for one season, stepping in after former coach and NFL star Trent Dilfer left this system for the UAB head teaching job. After successful back-to-back DII-AA state championships below Dilfer, the staff moved as much as the DII-AAA division and went 4-6 below Mawae.
A type of losses was the forfeit of a win over Briarcrest after the TSSAA dominated that Notre Dame quarterback commit Deuce Knight and three-star prospect Kohl Bradley “didn’t have a bona fide change of handle once they moved to Mississippi,” The Tennessean wrote.
That was considered one of two findings of the TSSAA. The opposite was a recruiting violation “based mostly on a short textual content dialog between a soccer assistant coach and a former father or mother.” TSSAA government director Mark Reeves wrote to Schultz that the group’s findings counsel a coach “was providing to ‘intercede’ with donors to assist safe monetary help for the household,” based on the Tennessean. Learn extra right here and right here.
In February, the Lipscomb Academy athletics program was positioned on probation and fined by the TSSAA for a social media submit that includes a ladies basketball participant that the group mentioned broke a recruiting rule.