Stephanie McCaffrey, the second-leading scorer on the Boston College women's soccer team, was suspended from the team [1] Thursday for sending out joking tweets about Penn State's sexual abuse scandal as the Eagles prepared for a Friday night game at Penn State in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
McCaffrey, a sophomore from Winchester, sent out 10 tweets referencing former Nittany Lions football assistant Jerry Sandusky over a 24-hour period. Her Twitter account was taken down about an hour after her last tweet late Thursday afternoon.
"The student-athlete used very poor judgment and exhibited insensitivity toward Penn State, for which she apologizes," new BC athletic director Brad Bates said in a statement. "This type of behavior is not tolerated among our student-athletes. Miss McCaffrey has been suspended from the team and will not participate in Friday's game."
McCaffrey, whose brother James is a redshirt sophomore defensive back on the BC football team, is a second-team All-ACC forward who has nine goals and six assists this year.
Read more about that story and others, plus check out videos, trivia and more, at Friday's Morning Mashup [2].
Links:
[1] http://www.bceagles.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/111512aaa.html
[2] http://leeinks.weei.com/sports/2012/11/16/fridays-morning-mashup-bc-suspends-womens-soccer-player-for-tweeting-jokes-about-jerry-sandusky-scandal
[3] http://www.weei.com/category/boston/general