Swimming in Scandal Thursday, May 26, 2022
There seems to be a scandal developing around women's swimming at Berkeley. Yesterday, there was a lengthy news article dealing with alleged bullying by a coach.* Today there is a report of a walkout by swimmers. See below: From the Orange County Register: 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 learned.
Cal athletic director Jim Knowlton associate AD Gordon Bayne and Graig Chow, the school’s director of high performance and well-being, have scheduled a meeting with Golden Bears swimmers after Wednesday’s afternoon practice. The meeting comes a week after Cal was first informed of allegations uncovered in an SCNG investigation into alleged bullying and verbal and mental abuse by McKeever. It also comes amid increasing calls from current and former Cal swimmers and their families and supporters for McKeever’s firing, along with the firings of Knowlton and Jennifer Simon-O’Neill, the athletic department’s senior women’s administrator and a close friend of McKeever’s, for their handling of a series of prior complaints against the coach... Cal’s response to the report in the 30 hours after it was posted has frustrated, confused and angered current swim team members and their parents. The school declined to address the allegations choosing instead to release a statement mid-day Tuesday. “We are deeply concerned by what our student-athletes have reported,” the statement read. “There is nothing more important to the university than the safety and well-being of our students, and it is that commitment which will guide and inform how we respond to all that has been reported..." ... Full story at https://www.ocregister.com/2022/05/25/cal-swimmers-walk-out-on-terimckeever/amp/. === 184
UCLA Faculty Association Blog: 2nd Quarter 2022
