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Jack Weyman Nelson (November 8, 1931 – November 5, 2014) was an All-American competition swimmer for the University of Miami who competed in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics in butterfly and served as a Hall of Fame swimming coach at Fort Lauderdale's Pine Crest School, the Jack Nelson Swim Club, and the University of Miami.
Jun 14, 2007 · Nyad, a former distance swimming sensation who now works as a sports journalist, has claimed that Nelson sexually assaulted her and other young women while he was their high school swim coach. But more than 40 years have passed since the alleged incidents, and even if Nyad, now 58, could prove her charges, the statute of limitations has long ...
Jun 14, 2007 · She has declared that she’s determined to remove Jack Nelson from the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) before she dies. The Hall hasn’t inducted Nyad, but it gave her the Al Schoenfield media award in 2002. She used her acceptance speech to rail against Nelson.
- The Crisis Emerges
- USA Swimming's "Captive" Insurance Company — Headquartered in Barbados
- Throw Clubs Under The Bus — But Protect The National Brand
- A Congressional Probe Fizzles — But It's Not The End of The Story
Leonard's remark encapsulated swimming's passive attitude toward widespread abuse. But perhaps on the basis of Swarbrick's advice, USA Swimming in 1999 established its first Code of Conduct for coaches. Four years later, the group set up a task force to study the problem of sexual abuse after former Olympic gold medalist David Berkoff spoke out abo...
Belying their homegrown image, youth sports are big business. So is organization insurance for youth sports. The grand jury is scrutinizing swimming's insurance structure as well the underlying activity of sexual abuse, which gave rise to the sport's liability crisis. The two go hand in hand. Around the same time of Jack Swarbrick's warning, intern...
In its heyday, USSIC featured an unorthodox wrinkle in swimming's insurance structure known as the "wasting" provision. This is believed to be one focus of the federal investigation. Meanwhile, USA Swimming worked around USOC's mandate to include specific abuse coverage in its umbrella liability coverage: That coverage did not extend to the 2,000 m...
In 2012, Kelley Davies, the swimming abuse victim from the 1980s who had been identified by whistleblower David Berkoff, saw her old coach, Rick Curl, on the pool deck during televised coverage of the Olympic Trials in Omaha, and she was furious. Co-owner of the Curl-Burke Swim Club, a prominent age-group program in the Washington, D.C., area, Curl...
- Irvin Muchnick
Nov 3, 2023 · In 2017, Nyad penned an op-ed for The New York Times detailing the sexual assaults she endured as a teenager from Nelson, her swim coach. It was not the first time she had shared the...
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- Jack Smart
Nov 13, 2017 · Nyad, a long-distance swimmer who famously swam from Cuba to Florida in 2013, penned a powerful op-ed for the New York Times in which she opened up about being sexually abused by her former...
Nov 3, 2023 · According to Nyad, Nelson started molesting her when she was 14 and continued until she graduated. Her anger over the abuse and desire to overcome it later fueled her determination with swimming....
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