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Departments: The Law and You: Recent Rulings From the Courts Affecting HPERD Professionals

Recklessness or Simple Negligence

 

Abstract

A girls’ field hockey team coach instructed players to warm up in an area adjacent to the school’s turf field, where the boys’ soccer team was practicing. Plaintiff Morgan Dennehy, a member of the field hockey team, was struck at the base of her skull by an errant soccer ball. The plaintiff filed this suit against the coach, the school and others due to the defendants’ alleged failure to supervise and prevent potential and foreseeable dangerous conditions.

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Notes on contributors

Thomas H. Sawyer

Thomas H. Sawyer ([email protected]) is an emeritus professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation and Sport at Indiana State University, in Terre Haute, IN.

Tonya L. Sawyer

Tonya L. Sawyer is the chair of the Department of Business and Leadership and an assistant professor of sport management at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN.

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