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Tiffany Lopez reported Nassar to MSU trainers in 1998
Twenty years ago, former Michigan State University softball star Tiffany Lopez told three of her trainers that she was being sexually abused by one of the university’s team physicians. His name was Larry Nassar.
It would be 19 years before Nassar — who has been accused by at least 265 women with sexually abusing them in his role as a doctor to young athletes at MSU and USA Gymnastics — would be arrested for his crimes.
Lopez says she stopped playing the sport she loved and left MSU after her claims went unheard. …
“If I had been heard and believed 20 years ago,” Lopez told the crowd gathered at today’s summit, “the women standing beside me — all of the 265 young women who have now bravely come forward as victims — would have been spared from the horrors of sexual abuse.”
Lopez was joined by other elite athletes who are survivors of Nassar’s abuse on stage at USOW, including Aly Raisman, Jeanette Antolin, and Jordyn Wieber. …
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Peng wins the Honda
I recall Christine Peng-Peng Lee sitting in the stands cheering her UCLA team at Nationals at the end of her two red shirt years.
She told me she would compete the following season regardless of what medical said.
She made up for those two years. And how. National Team champions. National Beam Champ. And this.
The Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 42 years to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA- sanctioned sports and signifies “the best of the best in collegiate athletics”. With this honor, Lee becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the prestigious 2018 Honda Cup which will be presented on a live telecast on CBS Sports Network on Monday, June 25, 2018, in downtown Los Angeles. …
“Peng-Peng Lee is a pure example of how to live life with positivity and appreciation,” said UCLA head coach Valorie Kondos Field. ”
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Alabama’s Bryan Raschilla is out
After 22-years at Alabama, the gymnastics associate head coach was not renewed by Dana Duckworth.
His annual salary was $130,858.
Raschilla said he wasn’t given an explanation.
2018 was only the 3rd time Alabama had not qualified to Super 6 over Bryan’s tenure.
I expect he’ll be getting Head Coach offers from other schools.
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Minnesota’s celebrates NCAA Championships
… finishing second to Oklahoma at the national championships on April 21 in Chicago. In what Burns called one of his proudest moments ever, the Gophers hit all 32 routines and earned 11 All-America citations.
Freshman Shane Wiskus of Mound-Westonka, the Big Ten Gymnast of the Year, was second in the all-around competition …
Burns was named the College Gymnastics Association Central Region Coach of the Year, and Wiskus was named Rookie of the Year.
Congratulations to Mike Burns, his staff and the Gophers.
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