Ex-Kentucky swimmer: I was ‘vigorously discouraged’ from coming forward about coach’s sexual abuse

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'I was repeatedly discouraged and vigorously discouraged to not come forward,' Briggs Alexander said of UK's handling of the situation.

Former Kentucky women’s swim team captain Briggs Alexander said he was “vigorously discouraged” from coming forward about former coach Lars Jorgensen’s alleged sexual abuse during his time as a swimmer and later an assistant coach with the team. “I thought I could trust them,” Alexander said of Kentucky’s Title IX office. “I went to them and disclosed my abuse and thought it was going to be taken care of. … I was repeatedly discouraged and vigorously discouraged to not come forward.

” After Jorgensen denied wrongdoing and a swim staffer he allegedly sexually assaulted declined to speak to a school official, the matter was deemed “closed” after a week. Advertisement Last June, Kentucky announced Jorgensen’s resignation in a news release without providing a reason for his exit.

 

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