Whitney Chase

**Whitney Chase** is a star soccer player from Seattle who had an affair with her assistant soccer coach and is the daughter of a U.S. senator.

## History

### Arrival at Essex

Whitney's mother came to drop her off at Essex. On the way, Evette lamented Whitney choosing a college so far away from her, which Whitney indicated was not an accident. Still, she was happy her mother made the time to drop her off at school, though their trip was interrupted by a call from CNN. When they got to Essex, Evette walked Whitney in and told her roommates not to get her into any embarrassing situations. While they were talking, Leighton Murray, the fourth roommate, came in, but left quickly, believing her rooming situation was a clerical error. They went to a dorm meeting, where Frude Rasmunssen introduced himself and had them share about a time they were scared to bond them.

Whitney went to her first soccer practice, where she immediately butted heads with another player, Jena. After cleaning up, she went to see her assistant coach, Dalton, whom she had a relationship with.

At the next practice, she and Jena got into a physical altercation. Dalton stepped in and told Jena she was done for the day. Whitney confronted him in the office about this, saying he couldn't make it seem like he was playing favorites with her and he needed to let her fight her own battles.

While out running in town, she was surprised to run into Dalton. While they were talking, his wife walked up and introduced herself. Whitney left the conversation in tears.

Leighton, through her brother, got an invitation for herself and her roommates to a frat party. They all got dressed up and went. At the party, she met and hooked up with Canaan Greene.

### Start of Classes

At soccer practice, Whitney ignored Jena's request to pass and instead dribbled the ball and kicked it at Dalton. After practice, she confronted him in his office for never telling her he had a wife. He said that he and his wife were having some problems. Whitney told him never to talk to her again, despite his insistence that he and Michelle were basically not married anymore.

While working out in the gym with Willow, Whitney tried to talk to Jena, only to have her ignored Whitney's comment. Unfazed, Whitney tried to make plans with Willow only to learn she and the rest of the team, minus Whitney, were going to Jena's house. Willow promised she'd fix things between Jena and Whitney. Later, Willow said it wasn't going to happen and maybe next time she could come. Whitney decided to go to the party anyway. She was sure she could win Jena over, but she ended up overhearing Jena fighting with her boyfriend, Jason. They ended up making peace over Whitney consoling Jena. Jena said that not many guys their age could handle their soccer schedule. This inspired Whitney go go make up with Dalton.

Whitney and Dalton continued hooking up. They were hooking up in a storage closet when Dalton's wife FaceTimed, forcing Whitney to hide quickly while he talked to her. Whitney was frustrated because the call didn't found like a marriage that was ending. He assured her it was, but he had to find the right time to end things. She expressed that she didn't like sneaking around. He said he didn't like it either. Later, he called her and said he was taking her out on a date. They went out to the woods, where he had set up a movie screen for them to watch a movie together. As the movie ended, Dalton showed Whitney a text he'd sent his wife, saying they needed to have a serious talk.

### Away Game

Whitney boarded a bus with the rest of the team to go to an away game. On the way there, Willow told her the team was going to go out once they got to their hotel. Whitney was surprised because they had a game the next day, but Willow assured her it would be fine. While they were out at a mini-gold course, Whitney took pictures of Willow and showed them to her, but accidentally scrolled back to a shirtless photo of Dalton. Whitney swore Willow to secrecy about their relationship and then left to hook up with Dalton.

### Investigation

When Whitney learned that the boys' athletic teams got perks for being players as well as better facilities, Whitney decided to record herself entering their locker room to show the differences in how male and female athletes were treated. She was shocked when one of the athletes came out of the showers nude. Coach Woods called Whitney into her office and told her she was benched for two games. When Whitney's mom found out about the suspension, she set up a meeting with Woods and Dalton. Woods agreed to reverse the decision, but also revealed that Whitney had filmed nude athletes and was lucky the 17 year old on the team wasn't one of them. Evette warned Whitney they'd be discussing that later.

Later, at the Theta-lympics party, Whitney saw one of the men's soccer players, who said that it was natural that they got more perks because people actually came to their games, which he put up to them being better, faster athletes. Whitney challenged him to a race to see who was actually faster, using the treadmills set up for a "chug and run." They agreed that the first to a mile would be the winner. Whitney won the race, but while she was celebrating, slipped and fell on the treadmill.

Whitney met up with Dalton after the party and he said they needed to talk. She asked if he was breaking up with her and he said it was wrong to begin with and he never should have gone along with it. Whitney was confused and asked if it was because of her mom. Dalton said if her mom found out, it would ruin him and he'd never work again. He also admitted he never actually told his wife. He said Whitney shouldn't tell anyone either because they both had a lot to lose. As he got into his truck and drove away, Whitney threw a rock and broke his passenger side window.

### Parents Weekend

In preparation for their parents arriving for the weekend, the residents of the dorm met up to talk about it. Bela suggested they all share the lies they'd told their parents that they wanted each other to corroborate, which everyone else agreed was a good idea. Whitney told her mom she joined the Young Republicans to mess with her.

Whitney tried to talk to her mother privately ahead of the dinner with all the parents, but her mother was too busy. At the dinner, Evette told Whitney her dad wasn't there yet and said she could wait outside for him if she wanted to while Evette went inside herself. Whitney delayed them ordering food to wait for her dad, but when she called him, he told her he was in San Jose filling in for a musician.

Whitney went back to the table and relayed the news. When Leighton's parents shared an eye roll about it, Evette called them out on making Whitney feel bad about her dad bailing and Leighton's dad apologized. Later, when they were alone, Evette told Whitney that Leighton's dad was right about her dad and he didn't deserve the pedestal she put him on.

When Leighton learned that Whitney had had an affair with her coach, Whitney swore her to secrecy. Leighton then encouraged Whitney to pursue things with Canaan, saying it would help her get over Dalton. Canaan took her to Katherine Johnson House, where she met Jayla and Darius. She ended up coming back that evening for nacho night.

### Soccer Game

Whitney played in the game that decided if they would go to the NCAA tournament. The game went to a penalty shot and Whitney won it for her team, sending them into the tournament. While celebrating, Whitney was called into Coach Woods' office, where she learned that someone had found out that Dalton was sleeping with a player. Whitney denied knowing anything about it. As she left, she tried calling Dalton, but he didn't answer. Whitney talked to Willow, who said that she'd tried to cover for Whitney by saying she thought it was Jena. She also knew that Dalton's wife had called Woods when she found a box of condoms in his car and a search history that revealed he'd been searching to find out if a coach sleeping with a player was illegal. Whitney was temporarily relieved until Willow told her at Nico's birthday party that their bus driver had seen Dalton kissing a Black player. She and Willow were the only two Black players on the team, so Whitney went to Coach Woods' house and told her it was her. Woods said she'd already told the investigators she couldn't give them a name. She advised Whitney to keep it quiet, saying she didn't need this following her around for the rest of her life.

The next day, Whitney showed up for practice to find that Woods and Dalton had both been fired and the ice hockey coach was standing in for them.

Soon after, the school paper broke the news about Dalton being fired for having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Whitney was surprised to learn that he had done the same thing with a student when he worked at Ithaca. Whitney went to the team and said she was accepting full responsibility and felt awful that it was affecting the team. Whitney was surprised when her teammates sided with her and said Dalton was really at fault, not her. Without good leadership, they lost their first tournament game. Despite this, Willow reassured Whitney, saying it was the best the team had done in ten years and they'd go all the way next year.

Whitney continued seeing Canaan and they were hooking up when Evette came to the dorm to check on Whitney after seeing the news. Whitney lied and told her mother it was Willow, then begged Willow to go along with it. Willow did so convincingly, but Whitney later admitted to her mother that it was her. Her mother apologized for making her feel like she couldn't tell her then invited her back to her hotel room so they could keep talking.

### New Direction

With soccer over for the year, Whitney struggled to find something to do with herself. She decided to join the water polo team, but quickly realized it wasn't the right fit. She confided in Canaan that she felt like the only person there who didn't have her entire life planned out.

Whitney went to the Snow Run and then a frat party with her suitemates, where they found out they weren't welcome at any frat parties because Kimberly telling the administration that the Thetas were cheating got several of them expelled.

When a new girl, Zoe, started working with Canaan, Whitney became jealous of her. She ended up scrolling back through Zoe's Instagram and accidentally like an eight year old picture. To save face, Bela told her to make her account private and change the name and picture, so Zoe wouldn't know it was her. At the frat fundraiser, Canaan tried to tag her in a picture he took of her, so she had to explain what had happened. He assured her he wasn't into Zoe at all.

### Biochemistry Class and Hooking Up with Andrew

Wanting to challenge herself, Whitney decided to take biochemistry and biophysics with Bela. When she told her mother about this, her mother suggested she drop the class to take something easier. Desperate to prove her mother wrong, Whitney committed herself to studying. Despite getting a low score on them first quiz, she decided to stay in the class.

While working to improve her standing in biochemistry, Canaan invited Whitney to his dorm's Kiss-mas party and asked her to be his girlfriend, which surprised her because she thought they already were. Despite this confusion, she accepted and went to the Kappa rush party with Leighton, where she hoped to get some advice on what to do. The Kappas suggested that Canaan might have been sleeping with other girls. They suggested going through his phone to find out.

Whitney went to the Kiss-mas party and Canaan entrusted her with his phone when it kept falling out of his Santa costume. She took the opportunity to snoop through it and found out that Zoe had told him she liked him. When Canaan found out Whitney had gone through his phone, he said he needed a break from her and that nothing was going on with Zoe. They talked after he had calmed down and he ended things with her, saying the trust between them was broken.

With her recent breakup, Whitney decided to commit to herself and her classes. In biochemistry, she was pleased to get a good grade on a quiz, but then realized the paper wasn't hers. The TA, Paul, had mistaken her for the other Black girl in the class. When she showed him that, he fixed it. When it happened again, she decided to confront him over it and he overapologized, leading to her feeling bad for him. She went back to him later and said she just wanted him to get her name right and didn't want him to involve her in him educating himself on race relations.

For a lab, Whitney was put into a group with Andrew and Bela. She informed Andrew that Bela would not be coming. He told her not to bother to show up either. He said he'd do it all and get her a good grade. Despite this, Whitney showed up for the lab and insisted on doing it together. While they worked, Whitney realized Andrew had done a mistake with his math, throwing off the results of the lab. While they were doing the lab, Whitney noticed he had very muscular arms, which she found attractive.

As the final lab for her class approached, Whitney committed herself to studying. While Evette was in town for the food workers strike, she also visited Whitney in the lab. She was impressed with Whitney's commitment and told her she'd arranged an internship at the NIH for Whitney. Whitney feigned excitement, but admitted to her mom that she kind of wanted to get an internship on her own. Her mom said that was okay, but offered her help if things didn't work out. After completing the final lab, Whitney kissed Andrew in the lab. The next time they were in the lab, Whitney tried asking Andrew about them hooking up. He said he didn't think sleeping with her was worth it for him, because he was less productive when she was around. Despite this, they hooked up again. Wanting to avoid being alone together in the lab to avoid having sex again, they met up in the library, but still ended up having sex until they got caught by Canaan.

One day, while Whitney was eating lunch, Andrew came to her and said they were going on a date that night if it was okay with her. Whitney agreed to the date. Andrew took her to a restaurant with a 4.5 star rating after over 2000 Yelp reviews. He also looked at the menu online, so he was immediately ready to order, forcing Whitney to choose quickly. When Whitney ordered a Caesar salad, he suggested it might not be the best choice as the reviews had called the croutons forgettable. She decided to take her chances. He said he wanted everything about the date to go perfectly. Whitney said he could relax and he said he was. He took a sip of his water and sent it back, saying it had a weird smell.

When she got home, Whitney told her suitemates that the date was bad and awkward. Leighton was worried she might have ruined a good casual relationship by trying to date. Bela suggested pretending the date never happened, which Whitney liked.

Whitney found Andrew playing basketball and was surprised to hear him say he'd enjoyed their date and wanted to go out again. They played a game of one on one, which ended with them making out. After they had sex, Andrew expressed how happy he was they were dating, while Whitney was left feeling awkward. Despite Andrew offering for her to spend the night, she left after he went to bed and walked home.

As their freshman year came to a close, Whitney and Kimberly talked and decided to ask to room together for their sophomore year. They waffled over whether or not to include Bela in this. Along with this, Whitney also changed her major to biochemistry and biophysics, the same as Andrew's, though she didn't want to date him. She promised she'd break up with him soon, though she'd failed twice before. She finally managed to end things with them as they went into their final class, where Andrew was doing a lab in front of the class. Andrew struggled to get through this and had to step out.

Whitney spotted Canaan at the last party of the year and eventually left the party looking for him, but found him kissing Kimberly. Because of this, she decided to take a room at Kappa instead of rooming with Kimberly.

## Relationships

### Romantic

#### Dalton

She had an affair with Coach Dalton, who was cheating on his wife of six years.

### Family

Her mother, Evette Chase, is a senator from Washington.

She has a cousin named Adam whom her mother set up with a hedge fund. Now he owns a yacht.

## Notes and Trivia

* She was in Dalton's phone as "Steven Kim Accountant."
* Love & Basketball is her favorite movie.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Welcome to Essex
2. ↑ Naked Party
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Le Tuteur
4. ↑ Kappa
5. ↑ That Comment Tho
6. ↑ Parents Weekend
7. ↑ I Think I'm a Sex Addict
8. ↑ The Surprise Party
9. ↑ Cheating
10. ↑ The Truth
11. ↑ Winter is Coming
12. ↑ Frat Problems
13. ↑ The Short King
14. ↑ Will You Be My Girlfriend?
15. ↑ Taking Shots
16. ↑ Doppelbanger
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 The Essex College Food Workers Strike
18. ↑ Pre-Frosh Weekend
19. ↑ Sex & Basketball
20. ↑ The Rooming Lottery