Mater Dei boys water polo subject of police hazing investigation
A Mater Dei High School athletic program that has been under scrutiny for the past six months is the subject of a new police investigation into alleged hazing involving Monarchs athletes. The Santa Ana...
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Evan Jager’s return to the steeplechase ‘a little surreal’
WALNUT — A half-hour after completing his first 3,000-meter steeplechase since 2018, Evan Jager, the most dominant steeplechaser in American history, was still trying to make sense of the race and the...
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Kerley, Norman rivalry delivers at Mt. SAC Relays
Michael Cherry of the United States reacts after placing first with a time of 44.28 in the Mens 400 Meter Dash Elite during the Mt. SAC Relays in Hilmer Lodge Stadium on the campus of Mt. San Antonio...
View ArticleFormer USA Gymnastics CEO Steve Penny will not be prosecuted in Texas
A Texas District Attorney has decided against prosecuting former USA Gymnastics CEO Steve Penny for tampering with evidence related to the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal. Walker County DA Will Durham’s...
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Former Mater Dei AD says school mishandled hazing case
The Mater Dei High School official overseeing the school’s nationally renowned football program ordered Mater Dei’s athletic director not to discuss or ask questions about an alleged February 2021...
View ArticleMater Dei athlete told police that teammates sexually assaulted him
Mater Dei High School football player told the Santa Ana Police Department that he was sexually assaulted by teammates in the school’s locker room last August, according to a police report. The report...
View ArticleNathan Chen returns home for Stars on Ice in Anaheim
So let’s just get this out of the way right up front. Nathan Chen doesn’t know. Hasn’t even really thought about it. “It,” of course, is the question of whether Chen will defend his Olympic men’s...
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UC Berkeley swimmers allege coach Teri McKeever bullied and verbally abused...
Her first few months on Berkeley campus were dominated by a singular obsession that consumed every moment, every aspect of her life. All Danielle Carter wanted to do was to make Cal women’s swimming...
View ArticleUC Berkeley swimmers walk out on coach Teri McKeever after reports of abuse,...
Cal women’s swim team members walked out of a Wednesday morning practice without training after briefly meeting with Golden Bears head coach Teri McKeever, the Southern California News Group has...
View ArticleUSA Swimming told of Teri McKeever’s alleged bullying in 2015
USA Swimming appointed Teri McKeever to the 2019 World Championships coaching staff four years after the sport’s national governing body was informed of allegations that McKeever bullied and verbally...
View ArticleUC Berkeley places swim coach Teri McKeever on administrative leave
Cal women’s and former U.S. Olympic women’s swimming team head coach Teri McKeever, the most successful female coach in the sport’s history, has been placed on administrative leave pending the...
View ArticleUC Berkeley hires law firm to investigate swim coach Teri McKeever
The University of California, Berkeley has hired the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Tolles to conduct an external investigation into allegations that women’s swim head coach Teri McKeever bullied and...
View ArticleEx-UC Berkeley swimmer on McKeever: ‘I honestly didn’t know how far she would...
When Cal women’s swimming head coach Teri McKeever finally stopped berating Golden Bears distance swimmer Anna Kalandadze during a workout toward the end of the 2019-2020 season, she gave the freshman...
View ArticleUC Berkeley AD: Teri McKeever investigation could take 6 months
A University of California Berkeley investigation into allegations that Golden Bears head women’s swim coach Teri McKeever routinely bullied and verbally abused swimmers for decades could take up to...
View ArticleMcKeever investigation: UC Berkeley AD tells parents he shares their concerns
University of California-Berkeley athletic director Jim Knowlton, responding to widespread criticism that he and the university for years have ignored or mishandled bullying allegations against women’s...
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Gymnasts file claim against FBI in Nassar case
Shortly after the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal broke in September 2016, W. Jay Abbott, the Special agent in charge of the FBI’s Indianapolis, reached out to USA Gymnastics CEO Steve Penny. “Hang...
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McKeever’s bullying led to lifelong issues, more former UC Berkeley swimmers...
A voice had echoed through Leann Toomey’s head for 14 years, more than half her life. Toomey began to hear it within days of her arrival on the University of California campus in the fall of 2004 ready...
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NCAA swimming champion details coach Teri McKeever’s bullying last season at...
On the final weekend of last September, the UC Berkeley women’s swimming program held a team bonding retreat on a beach near San Luis Obispo. At one point, Cal head coach Teri McKeever met separately...
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Suit alleges sexual abuse by popular former Servite priest and swim coach
Nearly 50 years later, it remains the most pivotal moment of a life full of heartache and emptiness. It was the spring of 1976 and a 13-year-old eighth-grade boy was taking an entrance exam at Servite...
View ArticleSha’Carri Richardson remains true to herself
It’s not like Sha’Carri Richardson didn’t warn us. “This sport been quiet for too long,” the sprinter tweeted on June 7. Translation: Richardson, the 22-year-old lightning rod, the fastest female...
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