Years after a swim coach faced retaliation for bringing sexual harassment claims of over a dozen female swimmers to light San Jose State has issued a formal apology
San Jose State University has quietly settled a retaliation lawsuit with swim Coach Sage Hopkins and published a formal letter praising and apologizing to him, 12 years after he first brought forward the sexual harassment claims of more than a dozen female swimmers against an athletic trainer who went on to abuse more athletes over the next decade.
In a statement Tuesday, Hopkins called the past years a “difficult and challenging time for myself and my family” but he said the public’s focus should be on “supporting and applauding the strength of the dozens of women who have come forward and participated in the various investigations.” Hopkins’s efforts would later be vindicated by a second San Jose state investigation in 2019 and a subsequent Department of Justice probe.
Shaw, who has maintained his innocence and has not been charged with a crime, is under investigation by the FBI.
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