https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/24/c...for-years/
this article may be under a paywall. basically, 19 cal women's swimmers accuse terri mckeever of screaming at them in public, daily calling them pieces of s***, body shaming, ignoring medical and mental health conditions &/or revealing those confidential conditions to the team. plus homophobia and racism. several detail how they became suicidal. mckeever's response reportedly was to mock them in front of the team: "did you try to kill yourself last night?...do you know how pathetic that is, how stupid that is, how selfish that is?...you messed up (your teammate's) practice!"
the administration was told multiple times over years by the athletes and parents, yet did nothing, apparently because of mckeever's olympic success.
this article may be under a paywall. basically, 19 cal women's swimmers accuse terri mckeever of screaming at them in public, daily calling them pieces of s***, body shaming, ignoring medical and mental health conditions &/or revealing those confidential conditions to the team. plus homophobia and racism. several detail how they became suicidal. mckeever's response reportedly was to mock them in front of the team: "did you try to kill yourself last night?...do you know how pathetic that is, how stupid that is, how selfish that is?...you messed up (your teammate's) practice!"
the administration was told multiple times over years by the athletes and parents, yet did nothing, apparently because of mckeever's olympic success.