University of Utah gymnastics coach Tom Farden will keep his job after the results of an independent investigation into allegations of verbal and emotional abuse.
Red Rocks coach Tom Farden will be put on an improvement plan and monitored but will keep his job, the U. announced Thursday.
“... We still consider the experiences reported by members of the program over recent years with great care, compassion and sensitivity,” Utah Athletic Director Mark Harlan said in a statement. “As you can read in the report, there were a handful of instances in which Coach Farden should have demonstrated greater compassion and self-control, and better professionalism.
• After a gymnast told Farden that his yelling made it more difficult to perform gymnastics, she said Farden told her that she would be a “nobody working at a gas station” in her home state if it weren’t for the university. Farden acknowledged making the comment, the report stated. • Four gymnasts reported that Farden threw a stopwatch after she wasn’t climbing a rope quickly enough. Three of the four told investigators they believed the throw was in the direction of the gymnast, one disagreed. Two of them also reported that Farden threw a clipboard in the direction of the gymnast. The gymnast involved declined to be interviewed, and Farden denied ever throwing either object.
Ultimately, only the “gas station” complaint was found to violate the “Athletics Well Being Policy,” which prohibits the use of degrading language. Other complaints were found to not be sufficiently corroborated, the report stated. The throwing incidents were found not to be “repeated or severe,” which therefore “did not violate SafeSport Code for Physical Acts of Emotional Misconduct.
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