Interesting read.
"Last May, in an exit interview, four Cal seniors on the 2021-2022 swim team met with athletic director Jim Knowlton and senior associate athletic director Jennifer Simon-O’Neill to complain about McKeever’s bullying and verbal and emotional abuse. Knowlton told them McKeever was just a hard, tough coach whom they would appreciate in coming decades. It’s precisely the type of attitude that permeated athletic locker rooms in past decades when coaches justified routine verbal abuse in the name of winning. But the report reveals that McKeever told investigators that in a draft performance evaluation for the year she had not received the negative feedback."
Editorial: Investigate Cal leaders’ knowledge of McKeever’s bullying
University needs to come clean on whether leadership enabled bullying of women’s swim team.
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"Last May, in an exit interview, four Cal seniors on the 2021-2022 swim team met with athletic director Jim Knowlton and senior associate athletic director Jennifer Simon-O’Neill to complain about McKeever’s bullying and verbal and emotional abuse. Knowlton told them McKeever was just a hard, tough coach whom they would appreciate in coming decades. It’s precisely the type of attitude that permeated athletic locker rooms in past decades when coaches justified routine verbal abuse in the name of winning. But the report reveals that McKeever told investigators that in a draft performance evaluation for the year she had not received the negative feedback."
