Coach Fired Over Agonizing Caught-on-Camera Cheerleading Split Shares His Story

The coach who was fired after video emerged of a high school cheerleader screaming in agony doing splits is speaking out. Now, some students and their parents are coming to his defense as the tearful coach tells his side of the story to Inside Edition. “What they made me and portrayed me to be is not who I am,” Ozell Williams said. The video, which went viral over the summer, showed 13-year-old high school student Ally Wakefield crying out while doing a split.