A former basketball player for ladies from the University of Wisconsin accuses her ex-head coach of threats, manipulation and the casting of her mental health while she was with the program.
Tessa Towers, who spent two seasons with Wisconsin and transferred to Ball State University, recently posted a video with a slide show in Tiktok with accusations against Badgers head coach Marisa Moseley.
In a statement to DailyMail.com, Wisconsin Athletics said: 'We are aware of comments that are shared online by former Badger Student-Athlete Tessa Towers and will investigate this issue.
'We care a lot about the physical and mental well-being of all student athletes in our teams, during and after their time on campus.
“Although we would like to share extra context about the comments of Tessa, the federal privacy laws forbid us to publicly tackle the health-related claims on the social media account of Tessa.”
In the video, which is 14 slides long, Towers claims that the Wisconsin coaching staff has violated its privacy by making her a release form for her to gain access to my therapy sessions, or I would be stopped from the team. '
Former women's basketball player Tessa Towers, former University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin is currently led by Head of Ladies Basketball Coach Marisa Moseley
Towers also says that she was told by the coaching staff that 'if I said something at a distance in the vicinity of SU's thoughts! C! The or the@+H against my therapist, I would be kicked from the team. ”
The player also claims that the coaching staff, “I excluded from traveling to the Virgin Islands and several travel with the team for no good reason.”
Towers also says that the coaching staff 'threatened' me with the removal of opportunities from her.
A more concerned accusation of Towers says that “my coach and employees have let me test for autism (I already have ADHD) I told them that I didn't want that, but they still forced me.”
She also described a situation in which a coach kicked her out of practice after another teammate had initiated an argument with her.
Towers also says that her coach threatened to kick her from the team if she has not admitted herself in a psychiatric hospital.
Moreover, Towers says that she has been put a 'three strike rule' by the staff and that she was the only person in the team with this policy. She adds that she got her first strike when she forgot to hand in a 'goal magazine' on time.
Towers also says that she was “forced to leave the team halfway through the season by my coach and staff ', adding that she would” leave my coaches office and leave my eyes away every time. “
A selection of accusations that towers made against Wisconsin's staff in her Tiktokpost
She says: 'My first year from the university, I felt like a laboratory rat for my coaches and staff because they would put me on new medicines every other week. I was 17 years old. '
Moreover, Towers claims that she was' forced to sign multiple 'similarities' that only applied to me, and were not official rules of the NCAA, rather things that the coaches and employees made. I was told that I had to sign this, otherwise I would be kicked from the team. '
Towers took leave from the team in her first year in 2022, where Moseley said at the time: 'Our program fully supports Tessa while taking this time away. We will always ensure that people first come for basketball. '
Under the first Tiktok -Post, several comments were left by accounts that seem to belong to former players in the Wisconsin basketball team.
That included a remark from several emojis who seemed to belong to Sydney Hilliard, a player who left the Wisconsin program with regard to the reasons for mental health.
Tessa Grady, an injured player who is currently in the Wisconsin -Lady team that 'noticeably absent in the bank in recent weeks' according to the Wisconsin Sports Substack Badgeremnotes posted:' Now this sounds known! Glad we came from that s *** hole! '
Several comments were left by Krystyna Ellew – a former player on the badgers that the University of Ilinois -Chicago transmitted – including one who said: 'But then I thought oh wait that I have been to have been [through] That too. '
Another former Badgers player, Imbie Jones, said, “I'm glad we don't get away from that.”
Moseley has compiled a record of 48-68 since he took over the badgers in 2021
During her career at Wisconsin, Towers played a total of four games – on average 2.3 minutes and 1.7 points per game. Since she moved to Ball State, she played in four games this season – an average of 5.8 minutes and 3.5 points per match, according to the website of the Athletic Department.
Moseley has set up a record of 48-68 in Wisconsin. Before that she was head coach at Boston University.
Moseley has previously made controversial statements, including a Big ten Basketball Media Day during a press conference last season in which she referred to some of her players 'ordinary white' children.
'If you look at my team, we are almost the United Nations. I have the first Indian woman who ever plays with The Power 5. I have children who are Nigerian and children who are Dominican and children who are Mexican and children who are of the mill white because they are still there, “said Moseley.
She added: 'My mother is white, just so that no one is offended. My mother is a white woman from the Berkshires. Very white. '
In a statement after those comments, Moseley apologized to say: 'Those words do not reflect my thinking or my values. My apologies for the impact they have had. '
