I just spoke about this with my partner earlier today. I wasn’t anywhere near elite level sports but played multiple sports since around 5 years old until graduating college, and we were often alone with grown men on the coaching staff in locker rooms, during practices or waiting for our parents to pick us up after practice, conditioning, games, PT and very often for away summer sports tournaments with the teams.

My parents were super supportive and one of them was pretty much always able to come to 99% of my games, I never had to wait for hours and hours to get picked up and I was still alone with several different male coaches fairly often. Thankfully, my coaches weren’t creeps and never tried anything but now that I’m an adult, I see how “easy” (and I hate that this is best word I could of) it would’ve been for a coach to be completely inappropriate, predatory and take advantage of the power dynamic.

Glad that the victims are able to speak out and hopefully get justice.