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Executive Summary, Letter to SafeSport of February 20, 2017 Page 2 The following individuals and organizations have signed on in support of the February 20, 2017, letter to SafeSport and support improving SafeSport policies to make them as protective as possible of vulnerable athletes Mitch Abrams, Ph.D. Steven Breiter Sport Psychologist; Violence Expert; Swimming; Assistant Age Group Coach Learned Excellence for Athletes Beth Adair Eli Bremer Runner; International Flight Attendant Pentathlon; 2008 Olympian, Athlete Advisory Council Alternate Ann Airey Swimming Amby Burfoot Runner; 1968 Boston Marathon Winner; Writer, Berit Amlie Runner’s World Magazine Swimmer; Division I, Scholarship, Senior Vice President—Community Erin Buzuvis Relations; General Counsel, Special Professor, Western New England University School of Law Olympics Florida Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Studies; Founder And Author at the Title IX Blog Betsy Andreu Vindicated Witness Against Lance Shelley Carlisle Armstrong Swimming; U.S. National Team Member Gretchen Dahla Ash Rebecca Carlson Competitive Swimming Rugby; Head Coach, Quinnipiac University Brenda B Bartlett Joelle Casteix Swimming; 1976 Olympic Team, Sex Abuse Victim’s Advocate Division I, Scholarship Frank P. Cervone Elisa Batista Executive Director; Support Center for Child Advocates; Parent of Athlete www.SCCALaw.org Steve Berkowitz, M.D. Becky Clark, Ph.D., LCSW-R, CC-AASP, CGRS. Associate Professor of Clinical Licensed Clinical Social Worker/Psychotherapist, International Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Deaf and Disability Sport Consultant, Sport Performance Coach Perelman School of Medicine; Director, Certified Consultant, AASP, USOC Sport Psychology Registry Penn Center for Youth and Family Trauma Response and Recovery Kathy Johnson Clarke Gymnastics; 1984 Olympic Team Captain; Silver and Bronze Jetta Bernier, M.A. Medalist, Sports Commentator Executive Director, MassKids; Prevent Child Abuse Massachusetts William Clarke President; Child’s World America Rabbi Yosef Blau Mashgiah Ruchani (Spiritual Colleen Clarson Advisor) at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Running; JTC Running Board of Directors Theological Seminary (RIETS) of Yeshiva University David Cohen CEO, Doc Wayne Youth Services, Inc. Pam Boteler Canoe/Kayak; President, WomenCAN Casey Converse International Swimming; 1976 Olympian, NCAA Division I Scholarship Head Swimming Coach; U.S. Air Force Academy Executive Summary, Letter to SafeSport of February 20, 2017 Page 2 Cheryl Cooky, Ph.D. Lisa Forest Associate Professor of American Swimming; 1980 Olympian, Women’s Team Captain; Studies, Purdue University Owner, Evermind Linda Crockett Kerry Gallagher Director, Samaritan SafeChurch/Safeplaces Principal Consultant, Provecho Consultanting Sebastian DeFrancesco Chris Gavagan Table Tennis; Silver and Bronze Director, Coached into Silence Documentary Medalist, World Paralympics Games Olivia Gill Anne DeMartini Gymnastics; Coach Associate Professor, Sport Management, Flagler College Allison Grant Townsend Swimming; U.S. National Team Member, NCAA Division I Robert Denithorne Scholarship Swimming Alison Gray Debra Denithorne Grodensky Executive Director; Pennsylvania Chapter of Children’s Swimming; Coach Abuse Victim Advocacy Centers and Multidisciplinary Teams; http://penncac.org/ Alex Diaz, Ph.D., LCSW Sport Psychology Consultant Michele Greenfield Swimming; Division I, on Scholarship Keith K. Dickson Swimming; U.S. National Team Member; Pat Griffin Triathlon; USA Triathlon Coach of the Year Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts Amherst Sheilla Dingus Molly Grisham Editor and Writer, Advocacy for Owner, Influence LLC Fairness in Sports Nancy Gruver J. William Douglas Founder, New Moon Girls Dean and Professor of the College of Sport Science and Physical Activity, West Kimberly Hadley Virginia University Soccer; North American Referee & Former Co-President of the International Gay and Lesbian Football Association Lanier Drew, J.D. (IGLFA); Officer, The Federation of Gay Games Running; Olympic Trials Marathon Qualifier; Associate General Counsel; Elizabeth Hanson Baptist Hospital Basketball; Client Director at Athlete Assessments David Eichman Rabbi Ari Hart Director of Athletics, Colorado Springs Founder, Uri L’Tzedekt, Awaken to Justice School District 11 Carrie Hastings, Psy.D. Kristen Elechko Track and Field, University of Notre Dame; Triathlon, Long Distance Running; Licensed Clinical and Sport Psychologist; Gay Games Overall Gold Medal Winner, Research Specialist, Play Like a Champion Today Sprint Triathlon Bruce Hayes Sue Enquist Swimming; 1984 Olympic Champion Softball; Head Coach UCLA for 27 Years; 65 All-Americans and 15 Rene A Henry Olympians Founder, CEO ONESoftball.com Assistant to the President of the USOC 1985-1989; Chair of the 1988 USOC House of Delegates Meeting, Anne Flannery Washington, D.C.; Member of USOC Committees 1985-1989; Basketball; Former President & CEO, PE4life Long Range Strategic Planning Task Force, International Relationship, and Media-Public Relations, Kathy Flores Active with the USOC 1975-1990; Consultant to FIFA, Rugby; Head Coach, Brown University FINA, FIG, UCI, FILA, and USSF 1976-1980 Women’s Rugby Team Holly Hesse Teri Wagner Flynn Softball; Head Coach, Missouri State University Executive Producer Executive Summary, Letter to SafeSport of February 20, 2017 Page 2 Katie Hnida Richard Lapchick NCAA Division I Football Player; Chair, DeVos Business Management Program; Director, First woman to play and score points in Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport; Director, Division I Football game; Sexual National Consortium for Academics and Sports, Assault Survivor University of Central Florida Nancy Hoffman David LaVetter West Virginia Foundation for Rape Associate Professor; Sport Management, Arkansas Information and Services State University Lyndse Hokanson David J. Leonard, Ph.D. Soccer; Women’s Assistant Coach, Professor, Washington State University Georgetown University Greg Louganis Derek A. Houston, Ph.D. Diving; Five-Time Olympic Medalist, one silver, four gold Visiting Assistant Professor, University in 1976, 1984, 1988. 47 Time US National Champion Of Oklahoma Nancy Lough Charles Howe University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Director, Cycling; Coach and former USA Graduate Certificate in College Sport Leadership Cycling Official Dale Magnuson Sandra Hoy Swimming; Head Coach, High School Girls Swimming Swimming & Diving, Rochester, Minnesota Karen Moe Humphreys Paul McCarthy Swimming; Olympic Champion, International Martial Arts; UCLA Recreation Martial Arts Swimming Hall of Fame Swimmer, Coordinator American Swim Coaches Association Hall of Fame Coach Kevin McDowell USA Triathlon National Teal Member; Eugene Hung World Cup Medalist Writer and Activist; FeministAsianDad.com Jessica Mendoza Erin Jablonski Softball; Olympic Gold Medalist 2004; Hazel Grove & White Church Olympic Silver Medalist 2008; ESPN Major Kansas City Kansas Public Schools; League Baseball Analyst Victim and Survivor Michael A. Messner, Ph.D. Rick Karcher, J.D. Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Sport Management Professor, Eastern University of Southern California Michigan University Nikola Milinkovic, CC-AASP, UN-ASAP Jill Karwoski Director of Sport Psychology, Intensity Softball, Head Coach, Quinnipiac University Tennis Academy, Norwalk, CT Joe Kelly Betsy Mitchell Author, Co-Founder, Dads & Daughters Swimming; Olympian, 1984, 1988; Director Of Athletics, Physical Educations and Caleb J. King Recreation, California Institute of Technology Swimming; Swimmer and Coach Dominique Moceanu Micki King Gymnastics; 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Springboard Diving; 1968 and 1972 Olympic Teams; Gold Medalist in 1972; Kelli A. Monedero Colonel, U.S. Airforce Track and Field; Social Worker & Head Track Coach Kyle Kusz, Ph.D. Matt Moore Associate Professor, Cultural Studies of Sport Tennis; Professor, Ball State University; & Physical Culture, University of Rhode Executive Member of the National Alliance of Social Workers Island, Department of Kinesiology, in Sports Affiliated faculty, Gender & Women’s Studies Mariah Burton Nelson Terri Lakowski, J.D. Basketball & Swimming; Stanford and Professional Basketball CEO, Active Policy Solutions Player; co-author “Staying in Bounds- An NCAA Model Policy to Prevent Inappropriate Relationships Between Student- Tracy Lamb Athletes and Athletics Department Personnel”, Coach Abuse Rape Crisis Center Director Victim Executive Summary, Letter to SafeSport of February 20, 2017 Page 2 Adam Nelson Dia C Rianda Track and Field; Three-Time U.S. Olympian, Swimming; Head Coach, MCAT/SVA Salina Aquatic Center Gold Medalist; President of the Track and Director Field Athletes Association Dawn Riley Marjorie Nelson Sailing; Competed in Four America’s Cups SVP Client Services Laura Robinson Abbie R. Newman, R.N., J.D. Cycling; Canadian National Cycling Team, Former Rowing Executive Director, Mission Kids Child Champion, First journalist in Canada to write about sexual Advocacy Center abuse in sports in 1992 Delise O’Meally Eva Rodansky Executive Director, National Consortium for Speedskating; World Cup 2001-2005; U.S. National Team Academics and Sport 2003-2004; Research Laboratory Specialist; University of Michigan, department of Internal Medicine Jessica O’Beirne Gymnastics; Host of GymCastic, The Chris Rowe Gymnastics Podcast Swimming; Assistant Head Coach- Loggerhead Aquatics Paul Offit, M.D. Monica Rowland Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Modern Pentathlon; Member, Athlete’s Advisory