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The Full 60 with Craig Custance

Katie Strang on AHAI's Handling of Sexual Abuse Complaints and the Pursuit of the Truth

The Full 60 with Craig Custance

The Athletic

News, Hockey, Sports News, Sports

4.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Katie Strang dives into her story about a prominent youth hockey coach being accused of sexual abuse, and how it was handled by the governing body, the Amateur Hockey Association of Illinois. Katie details the reporting process, speaking with some of the players and alleged victims involved, as well as the role the hierarchy and structure within youth hockey organizations play in addressing important issues. Katie also highlights USA Hockey’s involvement in the story as national governing body, and difficult questions facing the organization's leadership group.

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0:33.5

Welcome to the full 60 featuring Craig Custins and presented by The Athletic.

0:42.1

Each week, we'll dive into the biggest stories in hockey while bringing in unique voices to entertain and explain all aspects of the game.

0:50.7

Hey, this is Craig, and welcome to this week's episode of the full 60.

0:54.7

This week's guest is The Athletics Katie String, who is making her, I believe it's

1:00.5

third appearance on the podcast.

1:03.5

And since Katie and I last chatted on the podcast, I think she was out in the fall when

1:08.5

she was doing a few stories at the athletic around hockey culture,

1:12.7

drug use, and a few kind of heavy lifts, as Katie tends to do, in the hockey world.

1:19.1

And since then, she has been dedicating a lot of her time into investigating and talking to victims of a prominent youth hockey coach who operated primarily out of Illinois and had been accused of sexual abuse by several victims spanning long periods of time.

1:41.1

And Katie has been, as she tends to do, she has been reporting it very deeply, very

1:49.1

diligently, and has produced two very powerful stories at the athletic that I would encourage

1:54.3

you to go read. And I wanted to get her on here to talk about the process of those stories,

2:00.1

to share the story, to talk about what's next, to get around here to talk about the process of those stories, to share the story,

2:01.7

to talk about what's next, to get into the reaction.

2:06.9

There's a lot there.

2:08.7

So fair warning, we are talking about sexual abuse.

2:12.8

So there's some, I would say, graphic portions of this conversation.

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