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TO: Matthew Kredich <mkredich@utk.edu>, Mark Hesse <mhesse61@gmail.com>, David Marsh <dmarsh@swimmaccarolina.org>, Tim Murphy <tdmurphy@fas.harvard.edu>, Eddie Reese <eddie.reese@athletics.utexas.edu>, Steve Morsilli <smorsilli@aol.com>, Mark Schubert <MSchu47573@aol.com >, Jennifer Gibson <jenngibson60@gmail.com>, […]

In response to yesterday’s post (“Dear Swim Coaches Association Board: Who Will Stand Up to the Widespread Sex Abuse in Your Sport?”), I received an email […]

According to executive director John Leonard, the American Swimming Coaches Association is not “an organization that deals directly with children, nor is that part of our […]

Yesterday I emailed and faxed David Berkoff at his law office in Missoula, Montana, querying whether he referred to Rick Curl when Berkoff wrote, in a […]

So far the only precinct heard from on the board of the American Swimming Coaches Association has been the semi-coherent, semi-literate hack Ira Klein. I’m especially […]

I’m exploring why the board of directors of John Leonard’s American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) – in my view, a major bad guy in the sport’s […]

USA Swimming’s list of coaches who are permanently banned for sexual misconduct today got its first update since June 4. See http://www.usaswimming.org/ViewMiscArticle.aspx?TabId=1963&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en&mid=10011&ItemId=5107. This tip-of-the-iceberg list is […]

‘Whatever Happened to the USA Swimming Youth Coach Sex Abuse Scandal?’ (full text) Published March 30th, 2012 ***** P.S. on ‘Whatever Happened to the USA Swimming […]

“Denying knowledge of [REDACTED] and others banging their swimmers! It’s a flat out lie. They knew about it because we (coaches and athletes) were all talking […]