Swimming in Scandal - Part 10

Remember the UC-Berkeley swimming scandal?* As we close out the calendar year, it reappears:

From the Orange County Register: Former University of California women’s swimming coach Teri McKeever has admitted to emotionally and physically abusing Cal swimmers for more than 20 years as part of an agreement with the U.S. Center for Safe Sport, according to a confidential document obtained by the Southern California News Group. McKeever’s admission in SafeSport’s 18-page notice of decision this week marks the first time she has acknowledged abusing Cal swimmers since a May 2022 SCNG investigation first reported dozens allegations that she routinely bullied, emotionally and physically abused swimmers, pressured them to compete and/or train while injured and directed profanity and racist language toward them.    

McKeever’s admission was part of a deal in which she agreed to a three-month suspension from participating in any events sanctioned by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and was placed on probation for 12 months following an 18-month investigation by the Center. She is also barred from contacting the swimmers who made allegations against her to SafeSport...

Full story at https://www.ocregister.com/2023/12/28/teri-mckeever-suspended-by-the-u-s-center-for-safesport/.

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2023/05/swimming-in-scandal-part-9.html.