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(I have returned from foreign travel and Concussion Inc.’s coverage has resumed.)<\/span><\/p>\n On June 25, Sarah Ehekircher had her second meeting with USA Swimming CEO Tim Hinchey regarding serial complaints of her abuse by her teen coach, Scott MacFarland, and the handling of her complaints by swimming and the U.S. Center for SafeSport.<\/span><\/p>\n Ehekircher was accompanied at the meeting by prominent abuse victims’ lawyer-advocate Jonathan Little. Hinchey was accompanied by both USA Swimming “Safe Sport” program coordinator Liz Hahn and swimming legal affairs director Lucinda McRoberts.<\/span><\/p>\n Hinchey promised to consider Ehekircher’s suggestion to provisionally ban MacFarland pending the SafeSport Center’s investigation. (Arguably the new investigation is both a second investigation of the allegations against MacFarland and a review of USA Swimming’s flawed and biased 2010 investigation and National Board of Review hearing. MacFarland has said that he has “retired” from coaching but no action has been taken on the allegations, at any level of swimming or U.S. Olympic Committee jurisprudence.)<\/span><\/p>\n That was almost two weeks ago. Ehekircher has not been contacted since by anyone at swimming. Nor has she heard at all from the SafeSport Center since our coverage of how a senior investigator there, Kathleen Smith, conned Ehekircher into a meeting at which a second staffer popped in “to help take notes.” This humble scrivener, Michael Henry, turned out to be the agency’s chief lawyer. Additionally, the session, including an aggressive cross-examination of Ehekircher, was audiotaped even though Ehekircher didn’t have her own legal representation present.<\/span><\/p>\n Getting back to USA Swimming … What also remains to be seen, in the silence since the second Ehekircher-Hinchey meeting, is whether the group will release to her the 2010 investigative materials other than the raw transcript of the NBOR hearing. At the meeting, Hinchey, Hahn, and McRoberts were advancing the claim that these files are “privileged” because the technical complainant against MacFarland in 2010 was not Ehekircher but the organization itself, and related records were communications between USA Swimming and its outside counsel, the law firm now known as Bryan Cave. A more persuasive interpretation is that all this was structured so as to allow the perpetuation of a cover-up of all things MacFarland and his wide associations with prominent coaches and programs, and their abusers, across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE FULL SERIES<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\nSarah Ehekircher, Long-Time Coach, Tells of Her Youth Grooming and Abuse by Scott MacFarland, Her ‘Revictimization’ by USA Swimming’s 2010 Investigation, and Her Sexual Harassment by American Swimming Coaches Association Boss John Leonard<\/a><\/h2>\n
Sarah Ehekircher Describes the American Swimming Coaches Association’s John Leonard As the Boss From Hell – And a Creep and Sex Harasser to Boot<\/a><\/h2>\n
ASCA Boss John Leonard ‘Categorically Denies’ Sarah Ehekircher’s Sexual Harassment Allegations; Captive Swimming Industry Publication’s Article Also Smears Ehekircher and Concussion Inc.<\/a><\/h2>\n
What Sarah Ehekircher Says ASCA’s John Leonard Told Her About His Military Career – And What Leonard Said About It in a 2012 Deposition<\/a><\/h2>\n
USA Swimming Chief Chuck Wielgus’s Email Response to Hearing of Sarah Ehekircher’s Grooming and Abuse by Coach Scott MacFarland: ‘My Gosh … I Am Copying Our Legal Counsel …’<\/a><\/h2>\n
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Center for SafeSport Is Revisiting Sarah Ehekircher’s Complaint to USA Swimming That Coach James Scott MacFarland Groomed and Had Sex With Her Beginning When She Was 17<\/a><\/h2>\n
Congratulations to SwimSwam on Picking Up Our MacFarland-Ehekircher Coverage –<\/a><\/h2>\n
U.S. Center for SafeSport Must Carefully Shadow USA Swimming’s Disgraceful 2010 Hearing of Allegations Against James Scott MacFarland. First Stop: Pro-MacFarland Testimony From His Best Friend – ASCA Hall of Fame Coach Bob Gillett.<\/a><\/h2>\n
Houston Chronicle to Cover U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Reopening of USA Swimming’s Investigation of Sarah Ehekircher’s Grooming-Abuse Allegations Against Coach James Scott MacFarland<\/a><\/h2>\n
James Scott MacFarland – Accused Groomer-Abuser of Sarah Ehekircher – Is Scrubbed at Houston’s Magnolia Aquatic Club<\/a><\/h2>\n
Confusion Surrounds James Scott MacFarland’s Status at Houston’s Magnolia Aquatic Club in Wake of U.S. Center for SafeSport’s New Investigation of Sarah Ehekircher’s Grooming-Abuse Allegations<\/a><\/h2>\n
While the World Watches, Sarah Ehekircher’s Case and Others Move Forward at the U.S. Center for SafeSport<\/a><\/h2>\n
New SafeSport Center Probes Vague Charge Against Scott MacFarland; Abuse Victim Sarah Ehekircher Expresses Skepticism – Also Is Meeting With Congresswoman and USA Swimming Chief<\/a><\/h2>\n
Chris DeSantis on Sarah Ehekircher’s Upcoming Meeting With USA Swimming Chief Tim Hinchey<\/a><\/h2>\n
Scott MacFarland, Sarah Ehekircher’s Groomer-Abuser, Disappears From Website of Houston’s Magnolia Aquatic Club<\/a><\/h2>\n
Sarah Ehekircher’s Statement on Her Groomer\/Abuser Scott MacFarland’s Removal From the Magnolia Aquatic Club<\/a><\/h2>\n
Sarah Ehekircher’s Meeting With USA Swimming Chief Tim Hinchey Still Leaves an Impasse Over Release of the Flawed 2010 National Board of Review Transcript<\/a><\/h2>\n
Sarah Ehekircher, Who Just Got Scott MacFarland Booted From Swimming 30+ Years After He Groomed and Abused Her, Is Talking With Congressional Investigators About the Bigger Picture<\/a><\/h2>\n
Sarah Ehekircher Guest Column: ‘What I Would Say To Congress If I Were Testifying This Week’<\/a><\/h2>\n
U.S. Center for SafeSport Cons Sarah Ehekircher Into Meeting With Its Top Lawyer – Uses Other Despicable Tactics Straight Out of the Old USA Swimming Revictimization Playbook<\/a><\/h2>\n
U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Sandbagging of Abuse Complainant Sarah Ehekircher by Legal Affairs Director Michael Henry Should Blow Up This New Agency Without Further Ado<\/a><\/h2>\n