Ending Sexual Abuse

Measuring Champion Women’s Impact

  • CHAMPION WOMEN SUCCESSFULLY REMOVES PEDOPHILE VOLLEYBALL COACH- 2016-2018; 135 letters, Change.org petition with 9100 signatures, and media campaign to get a coach out of coaching volleyball after the coach was found to have sexually abused at least five of his underage athletes. He has now been banned from USA Volleyball, the AAU, and the Junior Volleyball Association. The pedophile then sued Champion Women for $250 million. Click HERE to download the complaint, click HERE to read our motion to dismiss, click HERE to read the reply brief, and click HERE to support our Go Fund Me legal defense. In a legal setback, Nancy Hogshead and Champion Women lost their Motion to Dismiss in July. You can read the opinion HERE. We are off to discovery and depositions!

  • BLOCKED CHUCK WEIGLUS HALL OF FAME INDUCTION – 2014; Represented 19 swimming victims of sexual abuse at the hands of their coaches, in a petition to prevent the sport’s Executive Director from Hall of Fame induction. Victims asserted that Swimming’s leadership knew about sexual predator coaches, but did not protect the athletes from these coaches. Chuck Wielgus withdrew his candidacy after five days. Read the USA TODAY article HERE.

  • REPRESENTED BRIDIE FARRELL AGAINST ANDY GABEL – 2013 – 2015; Bridie Farrell was sexually molested by sport leader Andy Gabel when she was 15 and he was 33. Petition to remove Gabel from the sport’s Hall of Fame, supported by 66 Speedskaters HERE.

  • PETITIONED ONLINE FOR 136,725 SIGNATURES SUPPORTING ENACTING THE SAFESPORT ACT 2017 – 2018; Drafted and circulated a letter HERE in support of S. 534. Signed by 55 organizations and 183 individuals, including experts in protection, Olympic, and Professional athletes, some of whom were victims of coach-sexual abuse, Hall of Fame coaches, and sport industry leaders. 
    2017 – 2018; Online Change.org Campaign HERE with 136,725 signatures supporting the SafeSport Act.

  • PASSED THE SAFE SPORT ACT – 2018; Feinstein and Congress and Nancy Hogshead-Makar Press Conference re; celebrating the passage of “Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and the Safe Sport Authorization Act”, S. 534 and H.R. 1973.

  • LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN 2017 – 2018; Letter writing campaign to support Senator Dianne Feinstein’s legislation S. 534 and H.R. 1873, sponsored by Susan Brooks to pass the “Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act.” See the bill HERE.

  • AIDED IN REMOVING SCOTT BLACKMUN FROM USOC: USOC Scott Blackmun Ignores the Sports Act and Sexual Abuse 2 4 2018. Read HERE — 13 pages detailing how Blackmun and the USOC took power from athletes. As a result, USOC CEO Scott Blackmun left the USOC in less than one week. 

  • PRESS CONFERENCEre; Congresswoman DeGette and Senator Cory Gardner legislation, June 2019. See HERE.

  • TEAM INTEGRITY’S ROLE IN SENATE AND HOUSE BILL S.2330: “We Got It Done” Team Integrity and USOPU Celebrate the Senate and House passing S. 2330, the “Empowering Olympians, Paralympians, and Amateur Athletes Act of 2020” Read HERE and HERE.

  • ROLE IN SAFESPORT: Legal memos re; SafeSport Code, and sign-ons in efforts to assure proper policies, jurisdiction and procedures for SafeSport, the new entity tasked with investigating and sanctioning sexually abusing people in power in club and Olympic sports: see more HERE.

Wrote:

  • Author, with Dani Bostick: The U.S Olympic Committee’s Moment of Truth, Huffington Post, June 1, 2018; available HERE.

  • Author: Michigan State Will Pay $500 Million to Abuse Victims. What Comes Next?, The New York Times, May 18, 2018; available HERE.

  • Author: How to Stop Sexual Abuse in Sports, Athletic Business, January 2018; available HERE.