Kangaroo Court

It was a term they had stolen from the baseball team. Lots of sports teams had some version of a kangaroo court. For the volleyball team it was a team meeting that was players only to address conduct or on the court performance that hurt or effected the team.

In some cases there would be small fines. That was more typical of other kangaroo courts in sports. But here amongst the broke college students an exchange of money as a punishment was rare. Often time it meant running extra laps or being required to serve the team in some other way. Often time embarrassing the person being punished.

Madison recalled how in her freshman year two seniors had gotten into a fight because one teammate had hooked up with this guys a fellow teammate had been hooking up with and talking to. Her defense had been since they weren’t dating she’d done nothing wrong. The team when they voted hadn’t seen it that way. Her punishment had turned her into the teams DD the next two months and she had to abstain from any sexual activity with another party for that time.

Madison had found the **** celibacy an odd punishment, but one that popped up more often than you would think. A lot of girls got called before the informal court because their focus was lacking or they were late to meetings. Why was that happening? Boys (or in some cases girls). And the solution? To say you weren’t going to get anything out of that relationship.

Not that that was going to affect Madison in this case. It had been over a month since she’d gotten any anyways (closer to two if she was being honest). So as she explained her tale to the others she wondered what her fate might be.

“So wait all of this because you suck at darts?” One teammate asked to laughter from the group.

“Yeah come on Madison. I know you’re not the biggest athlete on the team but even you should’ve been able to outrun some campus cops.” Another interjected to more laughs.

Jenna held up a hand for silence. It was given immediately. “Girls it’s time to vote. Is our teammate Madison guilty of the crime of embarrassing the team?”

In the old days it had been done with slips of paper and a hat passed around. Now it was all done anonymously thru an online form. Madison wasn’t surprised by the outcome. She was surprised that every single one of her teammates though had voted her “Guilty”.

“Alright.” Jenna said with a grin. “Now time to determine your punishment.”