{"id":67842,"date":"2020-07-02T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=67842"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:37:21","slug":"metoo-moment-canadian-sports","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/metoo-moment-canadian-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"We must pay attention to Canada\u2019s #MeToo moment in sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n We must pay attention to Canada\u2019s #MeToo moment in sports\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Something is rotten in the state of track and field at local athletics clubs and Canadian universities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Globe and Mail<\/em> sent shock waves through the running community when it published Megan Brown\u2019s story of emotional, sexual and physical abuse at the hands of renowned University of Guelph and Speed River Track Club coach Dave Scott-Thomas<\/a>. Meanwhile, the Ottawa Lions Track Club, the largest and most successful in Canada, was rocked by the firing of Ken Porter and Andy McInnis, both of whom also coached for the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, for athlete sexual misconduct<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And after making comments about the University of Guelph\u2019s inaction in waiting 13 years to fire Scott-Thomas and highlighting what he felt was multiple groups\u2019 (including athletes\u2019) complicity in the abuse, Queen\u2019s University track coach Steve Boyd was fired<\/a>. (Boyd remains a coach within his Physi-Kult track club).<\/p>\n\n\n

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The @yorkuniversity<\/a> athletic director just kicked Steve Boyd out of the spectator gallery at @OUAsport<\/a> track & field championships. He was quietly watching a race. Cannot believe this just happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Leslie Sexton (@LeslieSexton) February 21, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n