Training Rules

Training Rules is a 63minute awardwinning 2009 American documentary film coproduced and codirected by Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker. It is narrated by Diana Nyad.

According to testimony in the documentary, Rene Portland, who became Penn States womens basketball coach in 1980, was open with her recruits about her distaste for gay individuals. She set the policy as No Drinking, No Drugs, No Lesbians, letting every player know that being a lesbian or associating with lesbians would not be tolerated under any circumstance. If a player violated this rule, she would be dismissed immediately hence, the title of the film, Training Rules.After Portland had coached forwinning seasons at Penn State, Jennifer Harris, a player expelled from the program in 2005 who believes she was excluded because she was a lesbian, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a lawsuit that prompted former Penn State players to come out to corroborate Harris story. In February 2007, when Portland and her codefendants appeared on the verge of losing a legal judgment, the case was settled out of court. Portland then resigned in March 2007. ........

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