Pam Shriver’s Story: Me, my coach, and the dangers of crossing boundaries
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This is Pam Shriver’s story.
In an interview with Catherine, she reveals publicly for the first time that she had an inappropriate and damaging relationship with her much older coach, which began when she was 17 and lasted for over five years.
Pam tells the story from the beginning, describing how it affected her tennis career and her personal life for many years.
She is doing this to try to help young athletes, coaches and the governing bodies to recognise and understand the importance of boundaries, and the dangers of crossing them.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Pam Schriver, you're listening to the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | Well, Pam, thank you very much for being here. |
| 0:17.2 | We've spoken to you many times on the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm very pleased to be able to say that. |
| 0:22.0 | But this time, we're here speaking for a very different reason, |
| 0:26.5 | because you've got a story you'd like to tell that you've never told before. |
| 0:31.5 | We're very, really honored, really, that you want to tell it to us. |
| 0:36.5 | Where, when, and how would you like to start with that story? |
| 0:40.5 | Yeah, well, I want to start really at the beginning. |
| 0:43.5 | It's a story that I think has been repeated many times, many different ways. |
| 0:50.5 | But this is my story. |
| 0:51.5 | And it started when I was nine years of age. |
| 0:55.5 | And I was, I'd already fallen in love with a sport of tennis. |
| 0:59.5 | I lived in Baltimore, Maryland, where winter times didn't play much indoors. |
| 1:04.5 | But for Christmas, the year I was nine, I got a gift certificate for a tennis lesson |
| 1:11.5 | at the indoor club where my mom played all her tennis. |
| 1:15.5 | And so I took a tennis lesson from a coach, and he was Australian. |
| 1:22.5 | And he had moved to Baltimore just a few years before. |
| 1:26.5 | And I took just one lesson. |
| 1:29.5 | And then, you know, it was a funny lesson. |
| 1:32.5 | I remember very, like a typical Aussie of Sense of Humor. |
| 1:35.5 | And I remember I had a great time. |
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