UVA Swimming head coach Todd DeSorbo was named the Coach of the Year at the USA Swimming Foundation’s annual Golden Goggles Awards banquet on Saturday.
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Michael Phelps calls out USA Swimming: ‘We need transparency’
Michael Phelps, USA Swimming GOAT, maybe the GOAT U.S. athlete in any sport, isn’t sure he’d want his four young sons to be competitive swimmers.
UVA Swimming seeks out, gets, friendly media to counter fallout from misconduct story
The competitive swimming news website SwimSwam offered a rehabilitative hand out to the UVA Swimming program this week, in the form of a puff piece highlighting head coach Todd DeSorbo’s approach to coaching women.
I gave UVA Athletics a chance to make amends on the coach misconduct story: They don’t wanna
It has been made abundantly clear to me that UVA Athletics does not want to say anything, publicly, privately or otherwise, regarding the finding of misconduct against associate head swim coach Gary Taylor.
UVA All-American David King: ‘The kids that quit at Cavalier Aquatics had horrible attitudes’
UVA Swimming All-American David King offered a rather unique take on our story published on Monday on a former Cavalier Aquatics teammate who recounted a harrowing tale of emotional abuse.
Former Y swimmer: Unable to get through practice ‘without planning how I’d end my life’
SafeSport won’t say anything about the two-year probation it gave to UVA Swimming associate head coach Gary Taylor, making it hard to know exactly what led Taylor to admit to emotional misconduct.
Clemson fired its gymnastics coach: Why? Emotional misconduct
One way to deal with allegations of emotional misconduct involving a coach is what the Piedmont Family YMCA and UVA Swimming have done with Gary Taylor: pretending that nothing happened, and hoping the story goes away.
UVA extended contract of coach two weeks after he was put on probation
Gary Taylor, the associate head coach with the UVA Swimming program, is on a year-to-year deal with UVA Athletics.
Piedmont Family YMCA issues odd defense in latest email on Gary Taylor case
A recent email from the chief operating officer of the Piedmont Family YMCA regarding former Cavalier Aquatics swim coach Gary Taylor appears to be an effort to relitigate the case against Taylor.
Mailbag: Swim parents upset with silence from UVA, YMCA on Gary Taylor story
I still have yet to get a single email, text, phone call or letter in support of Gary Taylor, the UVA Swimming and Cavalier Aquatics coach who is serving a two-year probation after admitting to emotional misconduct of athletes.