US figure skating coach had teenage skater removed from her home in 2020
U.S. Olympic pairs coach Dalilah Sappenfield, who is under investigation by the U.S. Center for SafeSport, had a then-16-year-old Russian female pairs figure skater removed from her home by U.S. Figure Skating’s senior director of athlete high performance a year ago.
Mitch Moyer directed the operation to get the skater out of Sappenfield’s home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in September 2020, according to three people with direct knowledge of Moyer’s action who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the matter.
It is a violation of the USFS SafeSport program handbook for a coach to be housing a minor athlete: “A minor athlete shall not live in the same physical residence with an unrelated adult participant under any circumstances.”
Two other skaters were living at Sappenfield’s house at the same time as the Russian skater, both of them males over the age of 18.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2021/11/05/dalilah-sappenfield-us-figure-skating-coach-teenage-skater-removed-home/6286765001/
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