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By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor In the wake of the recent grotesque scandal at USA Gymnastics, in which Larry Nassar, former team doctor for the U.S. Olympics program, was sentenced to life imprisonment for sexually abusing athletes, American youth sports organizations are reviewing ...

Jordan Windle Temporarily Suspended by U.S. Center for SafeSport Diver Jordan Windle, a star performer for the University of Texas and a U.S. Olympian, has been suspended by the U.S. Center for SafeSport. According to the open database on the SafeSport website, Windle was handed a “Temporary Suspens...

SafeSport was started to “end all forms of abuse in sport.” But the reversal of a ban on a taekwondo coach could make athletes in every sport more uneasy about the process. The U.S. Center for SafeSport temporarily removed taekwondo coach Jean Lopez from its sanctioned database this week “after tell...

At a time when perhaps being USA Water Polo CEO is not so desirable, Christopher Ramsey plans to stay put—in spite of critics clamoring for his removal and a raging pandemic that has brought the sport to a virtual standstill. A petition launched two weeks ago by former Olympians, past national team ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Multiple news outlets in the Los Angeles area have reported that Bahram Hojreh, a prominent Southern California youth water polo coach, has been accused of sexually abusing seven of his female players in Los Alamitos, CA. Sean Emery and Dan Albano of t...

SafeSport Launches First National Survey of Coaches The U.S. Center for SafeSport on Monday launched a first-of-its-kind survey of coaches to share experiences about safety in sport. The National Coaches Survey: Building Safer Sports Together has been created to solicit information from coaches on a...

An incident last weekend in St. Petersburg, Florida exposed a flash point in a contentious legal battle involving USA Water Polo and former SOPAC Zone coach Bahram Hojreh, the subject of criminal and civil charges for alleged abuse of his players. Pictures of Hojreh with members of the Jacksonville ...

Sean Hutchison, the former coach of Olympian Ariana Kukors Smith, has been permanently banned by the U.S. Center for SafeSport, according to reports by USA Today and the Orange County Register. The investigation confirmed that Hutchison began his grooming of Kukors Smith when she was a teenager by r...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor It's a time of great promise for water polo in this country, and Stephanie Krogius may be the ideal ambassador for USA Water Polo, the national governing body (NGB) that oversees the sport in the U.S. A former All-American tennis player at USC, she has...

The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault!  Non-Subscribers can click here to download For FREE – (Limited Time Offer) Read about the importance of mental health as presented by prominent advocates in the swimming world, including Michael P...