Gary Taylor, in Year 2 of a two-year probation for emotional abuse of swimmers at two colleges and a local YMCA, is still listed on the UVA Swimming website as an assistant coach, though it doesn’t seem that the University of Virginia has a record of his one-year contract from last year having been extended.
I filed a Freedom of Information Act request on May 4 for a copy of a fresh contract for Taylor, who was given a one-year contract extension on April 3, 2025 – inside of three weeks of the U.S. Center for SafeSport putting him on a two-year probation for emotional abuse of athletes at NC State, Auburn and the Piedmont Family YMCA.
What is the U.S. Center for SafeSport?
- The U.S. Center for SafeSport is an independent nonprofit created in 2017 by an Act of Congress that gave the body the authority to resolve abuse and misconduct reports for more than 11 million amateur athletes in the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Movement.
The 2025 extension ran out on April 30, so, two weeks ago.
On May 5, the FOIA office at UVA answered my request for an updated contract for Taylor with a copy of his 2025 deal.
I reached out to UVA Athletics to try to figure out what was going on, and was told to direct my questions on the matter back to the FOIA office.
Before I could do so, I got this followup email from the FOIA office.
“For clarification purposes, we typically provide what is available in our database pending receipt of a newer/revised record or confirmation that there is no other record by the departmental records custodian. In this case, we are still awaiting a response for a more recent document and will provide that when available.”
That was six working days ago at this point.
Either he signed a fresh contract before April 30, which is likely, or he didn’t.
It’s public record, and we have a right to see it.
ICYMI: Gary Taylor placed on two-year probation
- Cav Aquatics, UVA Swimming coach Gary Taylor on probation after admitting to emotional abuse of athletes
- UVA extended contract of coach two weeks after he was put on probation
- I gave UVA Athletics a chance to make amends on the coach misconduct story: They don’t wanna
- UVA Swimming seeks out, gets, friendly media to counter fallout from misconduct story
- D1 swimmer: ‘It was hard for me to go to practice every day and face Gary Taylor’
- Mailbag: Swim parents upset with silence from UVA, YMCA on Gary Taylor story
- Former Y swimmer: Unable to get through practice ‘without planning how I’d end my life’
- UVA All-American David King: ‘The kids that quit at Cavalier Aquatics had horrible attitudes’
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