She is the most well known and most successful female coach in the sport’s history. [She] was the first and only woman head coach of the U.S. Olympic team, leading a squad that included six future, current or former Cal swimmers who earned a combined 13 medals at the London Games.
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Cal swimmers told [the coach a team member contemplated killing herself] and the coach confronted [the swimmer] the next morning at practice, pulling her out the pool.
“Did you try and kill yourself last night?” [the coach] asked her...
“Yeah,” [the swimmer] responded. “I don’t want to live.
“[Coach] literally laughed in my face and said, ‘Do you know how pathetic that is? How stupid that is? How selfish that is?’”
