Kansas State has suspended women’s soccer head coach Colleen Corbin for two weeks following the use of a racial slur \u2014 even though her use of the term was objecting to its use \u2014 The Mercury confirmed Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to sources with knowledge of the situation, Corbin had asked players not to play pregame music that included some swear words, including the N-word, before K-State’s exhibition versus Arkansas on March 7, in Kansas City. In a conversation about the music, she reportedly said the N-word, and players complained to the university.<\/p>\n
Corbin later used the word again when relaying the situation during a staff meeting, which led assistant coach and goalkeepers coach Maddie Dobyns, who was hired by Corbin this past offseason, to resign from the team.<\/p>\n
Following that incident, Corbin was suspended from the team for two weeks after a meeting with athletics director Gene Taylor on March 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCoach Colleen Corbin was suspended for two weeks following offensive lyrics played during warm-ups before a spring match,” the department said in a statement to The Mercury. “While addressing the issue, the coach inappropriately repeated the offensive lyrics. The incident was reported to the University\u2019s Civil Rights and Title IX office, and K-State Athletics took action, issuing a suspension. Athletics takes these matters seriously and expects coaches and players to respect others.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor would not say whether the suspension was with or without pay.<\/p>\n
Corbin is entering her second season as head coach of the Wildcat soccer team and is coming off what was perceived as a successful 2025 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last season, the Wildcats secured the first winning season in program history (7-6-5) and a record for points in the Big 12 standings (10). The Wildcats set 49 school records in the 2025 season, including: wins in a season (7), draws in a season (5) and winning percentage in a season (.528).<\/p>\n
They also tied the school record for non-conference wins in a season (5; 2017 and 2021), set the record for winning percentage in non-conference play (.786), home wins in a season (4), tied record for road wins in a season (3) and secured the first .500 or better record in road matches (3-3-4).<\/p>\n
The Wildcats are in the middle of their spring season and are scheduled for an exhibition with Creighton in Omaha on April 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas State has suspended women’s soccer head coach Colleen Corbin for two weeks following the use of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,319],"class_list":["post-181595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}