Curl Burke, the swim club founded and built into one of the biggest in the nation by embattled swim coach Rick Curl today, released the following statement both to USA Swimming and their team members today.
The statement states that Curl has “decided to take a leave of absence” from the club that he owns, and that Tom Ugast
USA Swimming statement.
Washington Post says that USA Swimming has begun emergency proceedings against Rick Curl.
Dear CUBU Families,Coaches, and Staff,
In response to the article that appeared in the Washington Post today, Rick Curl has decided to take a leave of absence effective immediately. Pete Morgan will assume the role of Head Coach of the Curl Burke Swim Club. In addition, Tom Ugast, Director of Operations at CUBU since 2010 will continue to process all management functions on a day-to-day basis.
Curl Burke Swim Club takes very seriously the health and well-being of your children that swim for our Club. All of our coaches value the time they spend with the swimmers. As a Club we follow USA Swimming’s “Safe Sport” program to help ensure the safety and well-being of everyone involved in our sport.
In 2010, all of our head site coaches attended the first seminar put on by Potomac Valley Swimming in conjunction with USA Swimming to educate our coaches in athlete protection.
In 2011, under the new policies that were adopted by USA Swimming, Curl Burke adopted a program that includes a code of conduct for our coaches, training in athlete protection, and mandatory background checks of all coaches. We strive to create an atmosphere that is safe and nurturing to all of our swimmers.
This article is painful for our Club and Rick Curl personally. If you have any questions or concerns going forward, please contact Tom Ugast.
I swam for Rick at Prep and was close friends with Kelley. I commend her courage for coming forward. I too knew about this as did many others. You have to remember that this was a looong time ago. If I remember correctly the purpose of not going to the authorities was to protect Kelley and prevent her and her family from being highlighted by the media. Now, if this happened today there is no doubt people would be in jail.
In defense to CUBU, those men that you are claiming knew the entire time are NOT the only coaches. Curl Burke has over 100 coaches on staff. Before you drag the rest of them through the mud, maybe you should take into consideration that these types of coaches are the exception and NOT the majority. Taking your kid somewhere else doesn’t make them any safer; there are several local clubs that have dealt with this in the past as well…
I hope that the administrators of this site will determine the IP address of ‘JG’ and make the necessary contacts.
His comments are more than disturbing and perhaps imply something much more sinister.
I don’t care for “JG’s” comments, and in fact, I deplore them, but while you might not like his comments, they are not indicative of anything that Big Brother needs to be coming in and investigating an IP address and trying to “make the necessary contacts”.
It’s comments like that which cause me to understand people’s hesitation about sexual abuse charges, or anything of that nature.
This country, for all it’s freedom of information and call for fairness, is full of idiots and sheep (which is in no way a reference to you, Sue) who would call for someone’s head the minute they are accused of something, make a comment they don’t agree with, or even look funny.… Read more »
Brian,
I don’t endorse JG’s comments, but, You are so right about Sue! One person says something she doesn’t agree with and she wants them investigated. Hey Sue, here’s a news flash for you: we still have freedom of speech in America.
Those of you who say this was an “open secret” or that you had heard about this at the time are ALL GUILTY of helping cover up child abuse, and you should all be ashamed. Don’t sit there behind your computer screen and act like this is old news. If you knew and didn’t say anything about it you are a horrible disgusting person and you need to reset your moral compass, or risk having someone else reset it for you in court. All you had to do was call the police and report what you heard. They would have investigated it, and there would have at least been a record of the incident.
As a friend of mine said earlier today: “Worst-kept secret in DC.” Heck, I heard this back in 1989. Many of the details reported in the article I heard 23 years ago. In the article, Ms Davies mentions that her parents were as naive as she was. I won’t hang blame on them. Instead, they got horrible and unfortunate advice from the lawyers.
Ok then . Return the money. then this case might be able to from scratch.
I agree. The parents took the loot and it sounds like Ms. Davies-Currin kind of liked the fun. It sounds like it went on for a few years.
Don’t shoot me, just one man’s opinion.
That is leading into another realm of experience. Many young girls are & have been very sexually active. One case recently (non sporting ) of a 45 year old wanting to sue the state over non convictions of “rape ” when she was 12 year old. All evidence lead to her actively seeking the sex with 5 males & the case was dismissed in 1982
Born again victims..
JG that’s revolting. She thought she was in love… and guess what, she was being molested instead.
JG, time to stop talking and go away.
Your opinion? Wow, I hope you’re a troll and not for real. To suggest that an underage girl “liked the fun” of being taken advantage of sexually by an adult male in a position of authority is repellent beyond belief.
How can they name Morgan as the replacement, considering his comments in support of Rick? It makes no sense even for Morgan to take the position from any point of view.
There have been many of these allegations that have proved to be false also.
I know of one where the police stormed in to arrest a man at Christmas dinner on his (step ) daughter tearfully reporting assault. An extremely harrowing time for all – no less so when the girl was diagnosed with a very serious form of mental affliction well past the psychosis stage. Since then she is required by law to attend hospital for weekly intravenous anti -psychotic drugs. If she does not turn up the police come get her.
Not everybody is mentally stable before these allegations.
What?
As I said – some alleged victims are mentally unstable. There are many cases that have been proven to be unfounded. I have a few of these in mind but I used the above example that it can & does happen where he ‘victim ‘ was simply crazy.
I know of cases the other way also .
I find the fact the family took a settlement in itself to be suspicious.
Apparently she shared her meds.
Don – seriously . I think if you followed the Scott Volkers case you would find a mixed up revengeful & jealous adult with severely challenged timelines .
This was just one case whereby the victim was either a complete liar or mentally deranged. She lost.
I have many others also.
It is people like JG that make victims afraid to come forward. Shame on you.
Well, lets see..it could be that being sexually assaulted as a 13 year old, developing an eating disorder, leaving school and the feeling of overwhelming shame that rape victims feel could have something to do with it.