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Skip Kenney made my brother's life miserable when he was on the Stanford men's team in the 1980's. (Not my brother who sometimes posts here). My brother was a walk-on on a team with multiple Olympians. He actually went to the USA Olympic trials 3 times and the Canadian trials once, so he was not some below average swimmer. But for Stanford at that time he was not elite, and the coaches of that era felt it necessary to belittle those at the end of the bench. McKeever sounds like a relic of those days. There is no reason and no excuse for that type of coaching.

I'm really sorry to hear.  Choosing a few team punching bags each season is a terrible/unacceptable/short-sighted way to motivate performance from the rest of the team.  I hope your brother found happiness outside of swimming at Stanford.  

I'm still not done processing my time on a team at Stanford, and it's sometimes a wonder that I love Stanford as much as I do given my time there.

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Skip Kenney made my brother's life miserable when he was on the Stanford men's team in the 1980's. (Not my brother who sometimes posts here). My brother was a walk-on on a team with multiple Olympians. He actually went to the USA Olympic trials 3 times and the Canadian trials once, so he was not some below average swimmer. But for Stanford at that time he was not elite, and the coaches of that era felt it necessary to belittle those at the end of the bench. McKeever sounds like a relic of those days. There is no reason and no excuse for that type of coaching.

I'm really sorry to hear.  Choosing a few team punching bags each season is a terrible/unacceptable/short-sighted way to motivate performance from the rest of the team.  I hope your brother found happiness outside of swimming at Stanford.  

I'm still not done processing my time on a team at Stanford, and it's sometimes a wonder that I love Stanford as much as I do given my time there.