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The Daily OrangeWBB | Cieplicki steps down as women's basketball head coach, Hillsman named interim replacement for 2006-07
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Keith Cieplicki has stepped down as Syracuse women's basketball head coach.
SU Director of Athletics Daryl Gross will name current assistant coach Quentin Hillsman interim head coach for the 2006-07 season at a press conference at 12:45 today at Manley Field House....
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posted 6/06/06 @ 2:16 PM EST
Originally posted by What players are you referring to as having left the program? Lauren Kohn, Jessica Richter and who else. Amanda Adamson has also left the program and has signed on at University of New Mexico. Are you counting some players in his first year? Just curious. I'm sure Hillsman will do a fine job. He couldn't do any worse.
When did Adamson transfer?
posted 6/06/06 @ 3:26 PM EST
Originally posted by When did Adamson transfer?
She requested her release from SU on Thursday, May 4th. She signed with the University of New Mexico on Thursday, June 1st.
posted 6/08/06 @ 12:18 AM EST
Dear Daily Orange,
I was very happy to hear that the infamous Kieth Cieplicki resigned from coaching. If you ask me, he should have never been coaching to begin with...How is it that a man who ran 7 players off the team as well as coaching staff keeps a job as a head coach??? This still puzzles me to this day, but you know what they say, what goes around comes around and I hope that it keeps going around for him...I utterly despise this man and what he did to myself and others on the team. And for him to suggest that he's leaving coaching because he found the LORD is a joke...if he was a true beleiver he would have relized that he had the ability to touch and change lives through coaching, not hinder them. It is a shame that people had to quit the game they loved because he was a Bigot...it is also a shame that he was allowed to remain a coach at Syracuse University. I hope that he truley find God, because he definately needs it!!!!
Former "Disgruntled" Player,
April Jean
I was very happy to hear that the infamous Kieth Cieplicki resigned from coaching. If you ask me, he should have never been coaching to begin with...How is it that a man who ran 7 players off the team as well as coaching staff keeps a job as a head coach??? This still puzzles me to this day, but you know what they say, what goes around comes around and I hope that it keeps going around for him...I utterly despise this man and what he did to myself and others on the team. And for him to suggest that he's leaving coaching because he found the LORD is a joke...if he was a true beleiver he would have relized that he had the ability to touch and change lives through coaching, not hinder them. It is a shame that people had to quit the game they loved because he was a Bigot...it is also a shame that he was allowed to remain a coach at Syracuse University. I hope that he truley find God, because he definately needs it!!!!
Former "Disgruntled" Player,
April Jean
posted 6/08/06 @ 7:34 PM EST
I couldn't agree more with the things April Jean said in a previous post. Cieplicki had the opportunity at Syracuse to reach out to players and positively change their lives. He had a lot of talent there that left the team or sat on the bench. Cieplicki devastated several girls on the team. He was a great manipulator and knew how to speak to the media so that things sounded great. The reality of the situation was that things were falling apart. He gave up. He says he is a "man of the Lord" and wants to minister to the Syracuse community. It's a joke. His ability to communicate with his players was horrible at best. He was very threatening and made players feel selfish and bad about themselves. No one had confidence. How will he minister to the community when he couldn't even treat his players with respect? I'm very happy he's no longer coaching the team. I would hate to see him affect future players the way he's affected players of the past. Three years was way too long.
posted 6/13/06 @ 12:01 PM EST
You're right. He tried to pit players against each other and was the most manipulative person I've ever known. He once said, "We tell the media one thing, but we know the truth". I'm ecstatic that he's no longer coaching at SU. He was definitely not a big east coach anyway. He didn't prepare the girls to succeed. They didn't have a "prayer" of winning or getting any better either as a team or as individuals.
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posted 6/06/06 @ 1:11 PM EST