Trinea Gonczar, Sister Survivor - Former Gymnast

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Episode 205

Trinea Gonczar is a former gymnast and a longtime family friend of Dr. Larry Nassar.

Nasser, the former USA Gymnastics team doctor and osteopathic physician at Michigan State University, committed criminal acts of sexual assault, that were the basis of the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal, in which he was accused of molesting at least 250 girls and young women and 1 young man including a number of well-known Olympic gymnasts, dating as far back as 1992.

Trinea was one of those gymnasts, and came forward to share her emotional testimony in January of 2018 at Nassar's sentencing.

On January 24, Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina sentenced Nassar to 40 to 175 years in prison for the sexual assault of minor.

Gonczar is now working with WC Safe, an organization that provides those affected by sexual assault with immediate and ongoing comprehensive services, at no cost, that encourage survivor healing and empowerment and provides compassionate and trauma-informed care to survivors of sexual assault throughout Wayne County in Michigan.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Trinea about her relationship with Nassar, when she began to realize something wasn't right, her powerful statement she shared with Nassar, becoming an advocate for sexual abuse and what changes she'd like to see with the USAG.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.8	Welcome, everyone, to Sports Spectrum. My name, Jason Romano.
0:22.6	Welcome, everyone, to Sports Spectrum.
0:24.5	My name is Jason Romano.
0:28.3	It's great to have you tuning in and joining us here on the program today.
0:37.5	Before we get started, I just want to share a little bit of a disclaimer with you about the subject matter that we're going to be talking about with our guest, Trinay Gunzar, today on the podcast.
0:44.3	We're going to dive into sexual assault and sexual abuse in the Larry Nasser case,
0:46.6	if you remember that case from last year.
0:49.2	And so I just want to give a little bit of a disclaimer. Some of this subject matter is it's somewhat mature. I'd say, you know, my daughter is 14. I would let her
0:57.5	listen to this podcast, this episode, but I would say if you have a daughter or son under the
1:03.2	age of 10 that normally listens to this podcast, maybe listen to it yourself first before
1:08.6	letting your children listen to it just to be sure
1:11.2	that you're okay. You know, we didn't go too heavy or too deep as far as inappropriate language
1:17.5	or anything like that, which I would never do on this podcast, but it does go into an area that
1:23.2	we don't normally go into. And so I just want to present that disclaimer to you before we start
1:29.9	the podcast. And our guest today is Trinay Gunzar, the former gymnast and longtime family friend of
1:36.3	Dr. Larry Nasser. And Nassar, of course, was the former USA Gymnastics team doctor and physician at
1:42.8	Michigan State that committed criminal acts of sexual assault that were the basis of the USA Gymnastics team doctor and physician at Michigan State that committed criminal acts
1:45.2	of sexual assault that were the basis of the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal from the past few
1:50.9	years in which Larry was accused of molesting at least 250 girls and young women and one young
1:56.9	man, including a number of well-known Olympic gymnasts dating as far back as 1992.
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