When she thinks back on that day, she feels the knot in her stomach. There was a "dark energy," Kim Russell remembers, as her bosses sat in a circle around her - one in a long line of disciplinary hearings the Oberlin lacrosse coach had endured. "I hope you feel remorse for it," her athletic director said. Kim didn't. Voicing her support of girls' sports - her life's passion - was what she believed. If that's the case, Kim was told, "you fall into a category of people that are kind of filled with hate in the world." Life, as she knew it, had changed forever.
