Sentences with phrase «youth swimming coaches»

Not exact matches

Another notable figure was Derry O'Rourke, who coached Smith for most of her youth — she took up competitive swimming at nine — and at the 1992 Olympics.

One of the parents who complained had learned that Tavares had been convicted in 1974 in New Bedford of «unnatural acts with a child under 16» following an encounter in a swimming pool with a boy who played on a youth football team Tavares had coached.

The USA Swimming scandal is a good case in point, identifying many of the weaknesses the youth sports community has in screening coaches.

The amended suit claims the existence of a culture in competitive swimming of condoning inappropriate relationships between coaches and young female swimmers, and that a woefully inadequate background check policy fosters sexual molestation in youth swimming.