{"id":505783,"date":"2022-05-26T06:46:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T13:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=505783"},"modified":"2022-05-26T06:53:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T13:53:55","slug":"at-what-cost-the-details-of-teri-mckeever-saga-are-chilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/at-what-cost-the-details-of-teri-mckeever-saga-are-chilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: At What Cost Is Success Chased? Details Of Teri McKeever Saga Are Downright Chilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Commentary: At What Cost Is Success Chased? Details Of Teri McKeever Saga Are Downright Chilling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In pursuit of athletic success, coaches guide swimmers through grueling training with an emphasis on achieving peak performance. Preparing for a championship swim meet is an arduous process that requires intense mental toughness, and the best coaches must develop a substantial bag of tricks for motivating their athletes, for keeping them engaged and on track.<\/p>\n<p>But motivation should never under any circumstances include demeaning comments, emotional abuse or bullying. Of course, a well-developed coach-athlete relationship might include some gentle teasing as part of the individuals\u2019 rapport or perhaps for motivational purposes. But calling an athlete \u201clazy,\u201d \u201cworthless\u201d or \u201ca waste of time?\u201d Accusing a swimmer of lying about a medical condition? Simply inappropriate in any coaching or educational setting.<\/p>\n<p>Those are among the claims made against Cal women\u2019s coach <strong>Teri<\/strong> <strong>McKeever<\/strong> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/report-allegations-of-verbal-abuse-bullying-levied-at-cal-coach-teri-mckeever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an investigative report from the Southern California News Group published Tuesday<\/a>. We are not here to litigate those findings, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2022\/05\/24\/cal-swimmers-allege-coach-teri-mckeever-bullied-and-verbally-abused-them-for-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the SCNG does cite interviews with 19 current or former Cal swimmers and six parents of Cal swimmers<\/a>. The reporting paints an image of an environment that no swimmer deserves.<\/p>\n<p>One swimmer reported McKeever yelling and cursing at her daily. Former Cal swimmer <strong>Chloe Clark<\/strong> said, \u201cYou live in constant dread because of Teri,\u201d and Clark shared a story of McKeever forcing her to practice while dealing with pain from Crohn\u2019s disease just weeks before Clark would undergo an emergency appendectomy. <strong>Cindy<\/strong> <strong>Tran<\/strong>, who won NCAA titles in the 100-yard backstroke while at Cal, called the program \u201cextremely homophobic\u201d and claimed that McKeever forced Tran to come out to her teammates against her will.<\/p>\n<p>The SCNG reported that the fear of the coach \u201chas led to panic attacks, anxiety, sleepless nights, depression, self-doubt, suicidal thoughts and planning and, in some cases, self-harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ugh. What a brutal sentence to read.<\/p>\n<p>Coaches seek to build toughness in their athletes, and that\u2019s a fair goal, but this sort of behavior is downright destructive. How could it help an athlete to break them down to the point of tears or to crush their love of the sport, let alone drive them to thoughts of self-harm?<\/p>\n<p>That behavior is unfortunately prevalent still all across the sport of swimming and sports in general, and it is abhorrent. So often, swimmers remain in a verbally or emotionally abusive environment because they are bought into the coach\u2019s message, because they believe that going through the experience will produce faster times in the end.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe that\u2019s true \u2014 but at what cost? One\u2019s happiness? Emotional stability? That\u2019s not worth it. Swimming best times is great, but such performances are not worth any resulting trauma, not by a long shot.<\/p>\n<p>In almost every case, swimmers perform better when they are in a positive and uplifting situation, when they look forward to attending practice and enjoy working with the adults and teammates in their training environment. After all, that\u2019s what everyone is doing here. Swimmers don\u2019t sign up for summer league teams when they\u2019re six years old with eyes on the Olympics. This sport, at its root, is about positive experiences and life-building moments.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s make sure it stays that way, even for the best of the best athletes striving for NCAA championships and beyond. First up is at Cal, where the university made the right move by placing McKeever on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/05\/25\/uc-berkeley-places-swim-coach-teri-mckeever-on-administrative-leave\/?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=tw-mercnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">administrative leave late Wednesday<\/a>. That decision is no rush to judgment, and Cal may now properly adjudicate the situation before making a final decision on McKeever\u2019s future, although the move should have been made before McKeever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/05\/25\/cal-swimmers-walk-out-on-teri-mckeever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unexpectedly arrived at Cal\u2019s practice Wednesday morning as if nothing was amiss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But this goes beyond Cal. Verbal and emotional abuse and the destruction of swimmers\u2019 self-confidence does not belong in this sport. Any coach deploying those tactics is missing the point of their job. That is not leadership. Collectively, the swimming community must do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary: At What Cost Is Success Chased? 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