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424: Emotional Abuse: The Maggie Haney 8 Year Ban

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4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

THIS WEEK'S INTERVIEWS

This week, Jessica speaks with attorney and Olympic Champion, Nancy Hogshead-Makar of Champion Women about emotional abuse (A.C.E score) and SafeSport rules, the 8-year ban for Maggie Haney, whether this counts as progress, what a culture of silent obedience looks like, and a new bill pending before Congress. Learn more usopu.info She also speaks with Robert Andrews, therapist and founder of the Institute of Sports Performance in Houston, about the long-term effects of childhood trauma and emotional abuse and what needs to change for USAG to be able to prevent abuse. As a child. Andrews was inspired by the book They Fought Back. His series Champions Mental Edge is available here.

GYMTERNET NEWS

  • We won the COVID-19 Feeding America fundraiser. Still time to donate if you can. Watch here.
  • 8 Years: Maggie Haney has been suspended for 8 years. We discuss what Laurie said about her experience, the details of the suspension, the information we'd still like to know, why now and why her (because there sure are others...), how shocked we are that emotional abuse was actually taken seriously, and what emotional abuse actually means
  • Fantasy Floor Music: We finally learned the details of Dan Kendig's 2018 resignation for getting caught doing something that most college programs do—and rant about the stupid NCAA rules on paying for floor choreography

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0:00.0

Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two.

0:06.0

It means she can't coach in a USA gymnastics club or coach at a USA gymnastics meet. That's all it means. She can move to another country and

0:16.2

coach. She can coach at a, this is what other coaches have done. She can coach in another

0:20.3

organization, AAU, YMCA, USAIGC, she can rent, this is what another coach has done,

0:27.1

she can rent a space in a USA gymnastics gym, just rent the facility, she's not an employee, she's just renting there and rent the facility. She's not an employee. She's just renting there and she can run her team as a private club

0:37.3

renting in a US Age gymnastics club. That's being done. So USA gymnastics that's not allowed. you better stop it right now because that's actually happening.

0:45.3

Right, but there is a case to be made as to why you would willingly agree to be governed by another organization, right, to be governed by the US

0:56.4

Center for State's work and you've got to assure them that you're going to be

0:59.1

fair, but here's what the standards are, that here's how you're going to operate and you've got to be transparent

1:05.8

and everything that's got to be super clear to get their buy-in.

1:20.7

And start doing mandatory face-to-face coaches in the room, tough, hard-nosed sessions with difficult scenarios and conversations where people can share about why they react that way,

1:25.0

and what's a new way to do this.

1:27.0

You know, if you're saying, we want you to watch this video and check it off the list and now you've been certified. Uh-uh, that ain't

1:34.4

gonna work. They'll just check the box won't change. So we've got to have

1:39.1

accountability, we've got to do a better job of educating coaches. We have to do a much better job of educating

1:45.6

parents.

1:46.6

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2:21.1

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