Peter Buecher, a former club and high school coach in St. Louis Park, MN, has been removed from the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s banned database after receiving an interim ban last spring.
Buecher was added to the SafeSport database in May of 2018, listed under the tag “interim measure – suspension” for “allegations of misconduct.” His interim ban was handed down on May 10 of 2018. Buecher no longer appears in the SafeSport database, a fact that typically means a sanction has been lifted by the U.S. Center for SafeSport.
Based on our previous reporting of the Center’s investigative process, an interim ban can be handed out at any point during the Center’s investigation of an allegation. An interim measure typically requires a separate hearing.
Local media reports at the time of Buecher’s ban listed him as head coach of the Metro Marlins Swim Team in Orono, MN. He had also coached at Orono High School. That same report says Buecher was fired from a coaching and teaching job in Roseville, MN in February of 2000 based on allegations of “inappropriate physical touch, comments of a sexual nature, use of language and written communications with swimmers.” He was hired in Orono about six months after he was terminated in Roseville. He is no longer listed as a coach with either the Metro Marlins or Orono High School.
We’ve asked the Center for SafeSport whether Buecher’s removal from the database was a result of an appeal in the Center’s arbitration system or merely the result of a concluded investigation, but the Center has not responded to our request for information.
Guilty until proven innocent
Mr. Buecher was removed from the database as the result of a concluded investigation.