Say nothing.
That’s what Caroline Ullring kept telling herself through the final days of March 1999.
She had accused her college tennis coach of sexually assaulting her in a Texas motel room during a spring break trip with the team. In late March, she had told athletic department officials about it, including a counselor and the senior women’s administrator, who briefed the athletic director about the allegations. The message Ullring felt she was getting from officials at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was that it would be best to keep this quiet.
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The coach, Lew Gerrard, told the same officials what he told The Athletic earlier this year. He admitted
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