National record-holder Addy Wiley's Coach's husband allegedly DOPING athletes!

addy needs to shut up and take that down. It is extremely disrespectful to the victims in the situation. she is clearly brainwashed and/or into the doping and weird relationship with your coach scene.

also who wants her opinion?? who asked for her to say something. there is no way anybody read that article and thought "what does addy think about that?"

That’s disturbing

While I am still willing to see her as a victim given her age and especially given the sexual abuse allegations, as I stated in the other thread it seems pretty clear that she decommitted from Colorado and decided to stay with the Johnsons based on the view that they would best help with her performance on the track. She said so herself, and it plainly suggests to me knowledge of and the unwillingness to part with their doping program which she viewed as a key to success and unobtainable elsewhere. Having made such a public choice she is now guilty by association because the accusations directly discredit her. So now we are seeing a sad spectacle of her being an apologist for abuse, exploitation and doping at 18 years old.

And where are her parents in all this?

I find the wording of that post to actually be very careful. They don't actually squarely deny anything, they just state it was "twisted to fit a narrative"

Hilarious that several of you are acting shocked - just SHOCKED!!?!??! (lol) that such a thing could possibly happen! I mean where have you been for the past decade? I promise you hu isn’t the only place where stuff like this is happening. This very evening some teacher is assaulting a high school student, and when the student tries to mention it, they will be summarily dismissed, marginalized, and it will be clearly communicated that they are actually the problem. The admin staff at the school will circle the wagons to defend the educator (always maintaining a thin veneer if plausible deniability, of course). And, why not? This game plan works for these monsters time and time again. Of course, the educational system is so good, and the educators are holy and pure! (lol) If you are thinking that this is a rare one-off occurrence, you are extremely naive and dumb. This isn’t an hu problem.

I get that she's young but I agree with this. By re-posting, and saying on her own that they are "united by the truth" she's basically calling Hannah Stoffel and Emma Wilson liars. And that's not okay.

There is no “narrative”. This is pure evil and it’s sad an impressionable 18 year old fell victim to their influence. Every HU sports program should be suspended starting tomorrow.

her coach lauren johnson looks more ripped than shelby houlihan and any other female american profesional distance runner.. just all muscle.

Yeah maybe I’m “reading between the lines”, but the article makes it seem like Lauren may have been involved in some sketchy practices as well during her time with OTC.

This could very well be the start of something much bigger.

I don’t know much more about this situation than what I’m seeing posted in this thread, but the first major red flag that jumps out at me is that the male coach was fired a couple of years ago (evidently for misdeeds), and then his wife gets hired to replace him?? Hello?

She denied it, indirectly by saying

"The university and its
current coaches have a
history of upstanding
behavior and have never
deviated from such
behavior. Therefore, I
support the university
and repudiate the recent
allegations brought
against it."

And here were his, as reported, ‘misdeeds’:

“He was fired in 2020 after being arrested on four felony charges related to a high school girl. Johnson, who grew up in Huntington and ran for the Foresters, pleaded guilty to felony identity deception in 2021 and served 30 days of a two-year sentence.”

Is she, the coach now that replaced him, still married to the guy? Even if she’s not, she had no idea or suspicion of something going on, and yet she (evidently) says nothing prior to his dismissal or afterword? Why did the school hire her in the first place? Seems off-kilter.

I have read 100’s of posts on this board about Huntington and their women’s team. Articles and posts make it out like they were a powerhouse. The fact is for the top teams they were a complete non factor (top teams barely knew who they were) they had a few good individual runners but the perception on this board is they were a women’s distance NAIA powerhouse (not even close)

Huntington Women at XC Nats

2021 Nats 9th place

2020 12th at Nats

2019 17th at Nats

2018, 2017 no team appearance etc.

In the NAIA, there is a huge separation from the top 4 women’s teams and let’s say teams 11-15 (3-4 min TT)

Huntington did win a recent indoor team national title. But, the truth is indoor NAIA team success is quite easy. 1/2 the teams do not field a team and the majority of the teams that do only field a partial team.

I ran in the crossroads league for 4 years. I’ve had the inside scoop on this situation for a while (see the other larger thread). I’m not saying this to “brag”, but many folks (myself included) have tried raising awareness and have been promptly ignored.

We’ve been crying foul for years and have been consistently ignored. I have sent numerous emails to the university trying to understand why Lauren was hired as the head coach and have yet to receive a response. It’s a disgusting situation and I genuinely hope the university crashes and burns.

Unless there are some circumstances I’m not aware of, such as, that it was the wife that originally turned him in, and she has since separated from him (and basically has nothing to do with him), then it seems, just from the appearance of guilt-by-association, the University should not have considered hiring her in the first place. But that seems like common-sense, maybe she has separated from him?

Sorry, we cross-posted. This looks like another very bad, sad drama.

Disgusting response. Who cares about team performances. How about the athletes that were sexually assaulted and forced to take foreign substances? I guess you don’t care because Huntington isn’t a “powerhouse”.

Honestly maybe one of the most absurd posts I’ve seen on LetsRun (and that’s saying something).

I remember much worse allegations against the Duke Lacrosse team years ago. I wonder how that all turned out? What about Findlay University? Anyone know?