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.
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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.
Parent leads effort to back embattled Charlottesville swim coach Gary Taylor
Two people involved in the Charlottesville swim community have told me in the past couple of days about an effort by a Cavalier Aquatics swim parent to persuade other swim parents to write letters of support for embattled coach Gary Taylor.
D1 swimmer: ‘It was hard for me to go to practice every day and face Gary Taylor’
She earned a D1 swimming scholarship, and will begin competing at the college level in the fall. Not because of her experience with Cavalier Aquatics and its head coach, Gary Taylor, but in spite of it.