If it's common, then why so many weirdos/pervs getting these jobs w/o having some sort of past history? Or in depth back ground checks? Makes me sick to think if my daughter ran for a college/team & this happened to her...I would personally go after that person myself & tell him, he picked the wrong athlete! In other words, I would hope I don't end up in jail...:)
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If it's common, then why so many weirdos/pervs getting these jobs w/o having some sort of past history? Or in depth back ground checks? Makes me sick to think if my daughter ran for a college/team & this happened to her...I would personally go after that person myself & tell him, he picked the wrong athlete! In other words, I would hope I don't end up in jail...:)
I susoect that the people who are into abusing someone who is younger then they are recognize that coaching, the priesthood, boy scouts, etc improve their chances of being able to abuse.
They are drawn to those professions.
That division III coach would undoubtedly be Lane Lohr at Wash U. A skeez who has trolled young girls since his college days at Illinois. The below civil
http://archive.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=70555
Was settled by Lohr and he has bounced between "situations" since. How a school that prestigious would risk their young people is beyond me.
Tat Ark wrote:
That division III coach would undoubtedly be Lane Lohr at Wash U. A skeez who has trolled young girls since his college days at Illinois. The below civil
http://archive.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=70555Was settled by Lohr and he has bounced between "situations" since. How a school that prestigious would risk their young people is beyond me.
Lane Lohr was my coach in college and your "facts" are wrong. He didn't settle, the girl dropped the case.
I came to Lindenwood via Jonesboro. While I did not know the accuser, she had spent time there and many people there did know her, and they all seemed to think the allegations were without merit.
To the best of my knowledge, he wasn't let go or pushed out from MICDS, he left when he got the head coaching job at Lindenwood.
He never behaved inappropriately to me and I never witnessed anything with my teammates either.
He was let go from Lindenwood after the 2006 season, because the nut job president had a buddy he wanted to hire, and he couldn't get away with firing the football coach. It had nothing to do with the allegations, those were a year and a half prior.
Lindenwood didn't seem to care about the allegations actually. I figured the administration would at least touch base with me after they came out, since I was one of only two female vaulters he had the previous season, but no one at the school ever talked to me.
Again, the civil case had been dropped by the time he was fired. Lindenwood was a pretty sketchy school, they were never concerned about it in the first place (it seemed to me that they should have at least touched base with his current athletes to make sure everything was OK).
All coaches also had to work a job of some sort at the school, and Lane's was in the admissions office. The official reason they gave him for firing him had something to do with not meeting goals or something they had set for admissions.
Lane took an assistant coaching job at Wash U and has been there ever since. He is now in his 10th season there. I'm no longer living in the area, but plenty of my teammates are, and other pole vault people I know, and I haven't heard about any "situations".
I volunteer coached the vaulters at Wash U while competing my last season at Lindenwood, and unlike Lindenwood, it is a really classy institution. I don't think he would have lasted there over 8 years if he was being "skeezy."
I cannot say with absolute certainty what has ever happened between him and anyone else. I have many friends who have been victims of various things, most of whom never reported it, so I am reluctant to accuse someone of lying. I know that a lot of coaches get away with a lot of stuff.
But I can tell you I am the only female vaulter he coached all three years he was at Lindenwood and I would have no problem sending any female athlete or even my own daughter to train with him... and there are coaches in my past that I cannot say the same for.
polevaultpower wrote:
Tat Ark wrote:That division III coach would undoubtedly be Lane Lohr at Wash U. A skeez who has trolled young girls since his college days at Illinois. The below civil
http://archive.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=70555Was settled by Lohr and he has bounced between "situations" since. How a school that prestigious would risk their young people is beyond me.
Lane Lohr was my coach in college and your "facts" are wrong. He didn't settle, the girl dropped the case.
I came to Lindenwood via Jonesboro. While I did not know the accuser, she had spent time there and many people there did know her, and they all seemed to think the allegations were without merit.
To the best of my knowledge, he wasn't let go or pushed out from MICDS, he left when he got the head coaching job at Lindenwood.
He never behaved inappropriately to me and I never witnessed anything with my teammates either.
He was let go from Lindenwood after the 2006 season, because the nut job president had a buddy he wanted to hire, and he couldn't get away with firing the football coach. It had nothing to do with the allegations, those were a year and a half prior.
Lindenwood didn't seem to care about the allegations actually. I figured the administration would at least touch base with me after they came out, since I was one of only two female vaulters he had the previous season, but no one at the school ever talked to me.
Again, the civil case had been dropped by the time he was fired. Lindenwood was a pretty sketchy school, they were never concerned about it in the first place (it seemed to me that they should have at least touched base with his current athletes to make sure everything was OK).
All coaches also had to work a job of some sort at the school, and Lane's was in the admissions office. The official reason they gave him for firing him had something to do with not meeting goals or something they had set for admissions.
Lane took an assistant coaching job at Wash U and has been there ever since. He is now in his 10th season there. I'm no longer living in the area, but plenty of my teammates are, and other pole vault people I know, and I haven't heard about any "situations".
I volunteer coached the vaulters at Wash U while competing my last season at Lindenwood, and unlike Lindenwood, it is a really classy institution. I don't think he would have lasted there over 8 years if he was being "skeezy."
I cannot say with absolute certainty what has ever happened between him and anyone else. I have many friends who have been victims of various things, most of whom never reported it, so I am reluctant to accuse someone of lying. I know that a lot of coaches get away with a lot of stuff.
But I can tell you I am the only female vaulter he coached all three years he was at Lindenwood and I would have no problem sending any female athlete or even my own daughter to train with him... and there are coaches in my past that I cannot say the same for.
are you ugly?
No, she's not. And to provide a brief view of her credentials... polevaultpower is one of the leading voices in the country for progressing the athlete and their support by our national governing body. Unlike you, who is a small-time, immature, know-nothing.
Pole vault power I am sure assessment of your own experiences are accurate; however as a Mary I track athlete in St. Louis in the '90s I can say with all honesty that we saw coach Lohr have an intimate sexual relationship with my teammate and captain. at the time we thought of it passively (as 14-16 year old
Kids do) only realizing decades later that our friend, then an underage girl having a relationship with a married late 20s Lohr, was the one who was actually the victim. It is indeed amazing what you realize is criminal with perspective. He is now back in town and has kept a low profile. I sincerely hope he is not the man he was 20 years ago but I must say I am surprised he is in coaching. His success is not in question. He knows track. But my experience more than 2 decades ago was watching coach Lohr as a
Predator.
One of the aspects about the Craig Carter case that has perplexed me is that Carter admitted to having sex with this young woman in his office (she concurs) and Carters office is near to all the other track coaches offices. Someone needs to explain how the head coach never thought something "strange" was going on. the head coach is somewhat "airheaded" but still, how could this go on for the length of time it did, and no one on their track staff knew anything? that just doesn't add up. If the head coach is complaining that he really didn't know then I would say the university needs to remove him. Being obilvious to this type of long term situation doesn't bode well for being a strong leader.
COJL wrote:
Ugly situation,
http://tucson.com/news/local/crime/it-wasn-t-a-relationship-athlete-says-it-was-rape/article_83ad5fe8-bbe4-5096-90ce-bfcc055e64ed.html
Wow. Guess when mormons snap....they really do snap!
Sounds like polevaultpower has a CRUSH!!!!!!!! Gross.
Does anyone have updates on Coach Carter or rest of UA staff? Seems like a huge mess....wondering what's come of the lawsuit