Alex Cooper is making headlines for something far more serious than her usual podcast tea.
The Call Her Daddy host has publicly accused her former Boston University head soccer coach, Nancy Feldman, of sexual harassment during her time on the team, and now, one of her former assistant coaches is speaking out.
In Hulu’s Call Her Alex docuseries, which premiered at Tribeca Festival on June 8, Cooper dropped emotional revelations about her time playing collegiate soccer at BU from 2013 to 2015. She detailed the intense psychological pressure and harassment she allegedly experienced from Feldman, revealing that the coach made inappropriate comments about her legs, touched her thigh, and pried into her sex life under the guise of mentorship.
“It was this psychotic game of, ‘You want to play? Tell me about your sex life,’” Cooper says in the doc. It wasn’t just creepy, it made her feel powerless. “If I didn’t follow this woman’s rules, I was gone.” Cooper felt trapped, fearing that speaking out would cost her the scholarship she relied on.
One moment stood out to Cooper, a meeting in the athletic complex where she had to explain how she caught mono. Even though multiple players were sick, she said she was the only one called in. She turned to assistant coach Casey Brown, pleading silently for help. According to Cooper, Brown just looked away.
Now, Brown is finally responding. In a statement to The Boston Globe, she said she has “no recollection” of that situation but insisted she’d never ignore a player in need. “The suggestion that I would do otherwise is completely false,” she said.
Boston University also addressed the claims, saying in a statement to PEOPLE that they have a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment and a “robust” system of support and reporting in place. However, Cooper’s story paints a different picture. She said she and her parents documented Feldman’s behavior and even spoke with lawyers, but they were told a case could drag on for years. BU never took action, and Feldman stayed in her role until retiring in 2022.
Cooper’s decision to speak out after nearly a decade came from revisiting BU’s soccer field with Call Her Alex director Ry Russo-Young. During a Q&A at Tribeca, Cooper explained that stepping back onto that field made her feel 18 again, vulnerable, silenced, and small. “I wasn’t the Call Her Daddy girl,” she said. “I was just another woman who experienced harassment on a level that changed my life forever.”
The backlash she’s faced has been tough, but she’s not backing down. She said she used to encourage other women to share their stories, but when she did, she felt disbelief instead of support. “It’s frustrating,” she admitted. “But I’m not ashamed that it took me 10 years.”
She sees the docuseries as just the beginning of a larger fight to expose how broken the system really is. “It’s opened my eyes to how difficult the system is, and it’s so built against us as women,” she said.
This story isn’t about just one coach or one school. It’s about what happens when power goes unchecked, and women are left to pick up the pieces. Alex Cooper has always been bold behind a mic, but this might be her most powerful message yet.
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