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Commentary by Jason Marsteller<\/em><\/p>\n

COLORADO SPRINGS – Outside Magazine<\/em>, a publication typically geared towards travel, fitness and adventure content, has published a comprehensive overview of the history and challenges of sexual abuse in youth sports with a focus on USA Swimming.<\/p>\n

The article<\/a>, along with a supplementary article focusing on specific USA Swimming coaches that have been banned for life<\/a>, looks into some of the scandals that initially plagued USA Swimming including the cover ups of Andy King<\/a> and Everett Uchiyama<\/a>\u00a0that Swimming World<\/em> initially covered back in 2010. \u00a0 The article also looks at some of the moves USA Swimming has made since then to get better at policing the sport.<\/p>\n

Within the article, Outside Magazine acknowledges that \u201c..there have been so many sexual-abuse cases over the years involving swimmers, USA Swimming in 2010 became one of the first sports governing bodies to create a public list of coaches and other officials who have been banned for violating its code of conduct, which now forbids sexual advances toward or sexual contact with athletes, even if the coach and athlete are both adults.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That public banned list<\/a> currently names more than 100 coaches, athletes and administrators who will never again be able to be a member of the organization. The bulk of the list is filled with sexual predators, but some of those banned have also been punished for other crimes including drug trafficking and theft.<\/p>\n

The most read about bans tend to be those with the most history. These include\u00a0Rick Curl’s ban<\/a> that led to his imprisonment for a seven-year jail sentence in 2013<\/a>. But, there’s an entirely different and more urgent issue at hand. USA Swimming’s Safe Sport program continues to pursue those more recent offenders that are currently offending, in an attempt to stop more from being victimized.<\/p>\n

In her article, author Rachel Sturtz writes that she has set up \u201cGoogle alerts for \u2018coach sex\u2019 and \u2018coach arrested\u2019; over a period of four months, stories turned up involving roughly 80 coaches who had been charged for or convicted of the sexual abuse of athletes over the past 20 years. This sample showed that no sport is immune from sexual abuse\u2014in my search, as it happened, most of the stories involved coaches in basketball, soccer, wrestling, and football.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These are the same offenders that Safe Sport is working to ban from the sport, as they are current threats to swimmers on deck. \u00a0USA Swimming’s Safe Sport isn’t alone in its attempt to move forward from the harsh media spotlight that came bearing down in 2010, as the United States Olympic Committee has continued to look at ways to improve the safety of athletes in all Olympic sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuge progress has been made within the USOC in the past four years,” Sturtz reports. “The culmination of that progress led the organization to announce in June that it is creating a new independent agency to handle sex-abuse cases, a $25 million effort. The National Center for Safe Sport will be the first dedicated agency in U.S. history to focus on the education and prevention of abuse in youth sports. The plan is for Safe Sport to take the investigative and adjudicative responsibilities out of the hands of individual governing bodies like USA Swimming and become a place for athletes to report misconduct without fear of retaliation. But its critics call into question its independence, noting that anything run by the USOC will have conflict-of-interest problems.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Safe Sport – initially seen as a reaction by USA Swimming to stem the tide of the initial outrage following Chuck Wielgus’ poor showing on ABC 20\/20 in 2010, when he refused to apologize on behalf of USA Swimming for any sexual abuse issues within the sport<\/a>\u00a0– has become just the tip of the iceberg as the USOC begins to make the eradication of sexual abuse one of its primary organization goals.<\/p>\n

This move towards a singular voice in regulating Olympic\u00a0sport has been a long time coming.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlame this history of lax oversight in part on Congress,” Sturtz reports. “In 1978, when it created the USOC and its NGBs with the passage of the Ted Stevens Amateur Sports Act, it neglected to create a separate national body that would set standards and provide regulatory enforcement. This was a huge loophole that predatory coaches exploited for decades.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sturtz provides a strong overview of what Safe Sport has accomplished since 2010 under the direction of Susan Woessner, and this type of positive movement can only get better as more and more third-party resources are devoted to protecting children.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen USA Swimming launched Safe Sport in 2010, it became the first NGB to adopt a detailed code of conduct and to send out suggested guidelines and policies for reporting abuse,” Sturtz reports. “Director Susan Woessner created a program that was successful in raising awareness about sexual abuse and in requiring training for its 35,000 non-athlete members. Woessner has been working with a nine-person task force to close the loopholes and start adopting nearly all 39 recommendations made in Vieth\u2019s report, such as offering Safe Sport training to children and parents and creating a victims\u2019 fund.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article does a pretty solid job of synthesizing material that has been reported on within the swimming community for the past four years, and does bring up some valid questions regarding the future of swimmer safety within the sport. The key question for the swimming community comes down to one that is asked by USA Swimming spokesperson Scott Leightman as part of this article.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn response to these and other stories about USA Swimming\u2019s track record, spokesman Scott Leightman told Outside that it\u2019s been difficult for the governing body to distance itself from its past, despite the big changes the organization has made. ‘We have taken many aggressive corrective measures to move forward to eradicate abuse,’ Leightman said. ‘We\u2019ve been aggressive in banning those who violate our rule book and have even brought several individuals forward to law enforcement.’\u00a0As for Wielgus\u2019s continuing employment, Leightman asked some questions of his own. ‘Are personnel decisions necessary if the organization has made strides and created programs to improve itself and better serve its constituents?’ he said. ‘Is a personnel change necessary if the actions have rectified the problems?'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s the question at the crux of the sport of swimming moving forward and solving these challenges with the full force of the sport behind it. \u00a0What do the bulk of the swimmers, parents, coaches and administrators in our sport want?<\/p>\n

If the swimming community feels that only a Wielgus resignation or termination will eliminate the shame of the missteps taken by USA Swimming during the past regarding sexual abuse claims, then nothing done to help sexual abuse victims going forward is ever going to be enough.<\/p>\n

If the swimming community feels that USA Swimming and Wielgus have learned from the past four years<\/a>, and are in a\u00a0well-suited position to effect positive change towards protecting athletes, then it believes rehashing history is only going to limit the effectiveness USA Swimming can have on improving athlete protections.<\/p>\n

USA Swimming responded with the following statement from president Jim Sheehan when Swimming World<\/em> asked for comment on the Outside Magazine article.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnna Strzempko\u2019s experience reveals the dynamics by which child sexual abuse in sport can occur and the devastation it can cause. We agree that one child hurt is one too many,” Sheehan said. “We\u2019ve come a long way since 2010 and understand the issues much clearer. We have learned to better address the problem of abuse and work diligently to remove those who perpetrate these horrific actions against our members.\u00a0Despite the length of the in-depth article, the full story of USA Swimming and its Safe Sport program was not told. With a heavy concentration on the past, readers were not given an accurate picture of how vastly different our organization is today.\u00a0We started a new chapter in 2010 with the creation of Safe Sport and it is now an essential part of our responsibility to our 400,000 members. We work tirelessly to minimize the risk that any child could be victimized, through continued introduction of new preventative programming, educational tools and outreach efforts.\u00a0The \u2018bad guys\u2019 are those who gain the trust of our children and manipulate relationships to abuse them. The swimming community must work collectively to keep our members safe from harm.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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