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Navigating the Safeguarding Landscape in Sport

Navigating the Safeguarding Landscape in Sport

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 Ryan Lipes of Global Sports Advocates brings unique dual perspective to safeguarding challenges, having built the U.S. Center for SafeSport from within before defending athletes from without. His insights reveal critical gaps in grassroots education, jurisdictional boundaries, and the delicate balance between protection and due process that defines modern sports integrity. By Joshua Gordon, JD, MA • Sports Conflict Institute • 18 min read Categories: SafeSport | Sports Governance | Athlete Welfare Executive Summary The Evolution: SafeSport has matured from crisis response to systematic prevention, expanding beyond sexual misconduct to encompass physical abuse, emotional abuse, and failures to report. The Challenge: Critical gaps persist at grassroots levels where participants often don’t know they’re covered by SafeSport policies, while case processing delays undermine justice for both claimants and respondents. The Future: Success requires faster case resolution, better education at community levels, and strategic coordination between Olympic governance and other sports ecosystems. In a recent episode of SCI TV’s Sports Conflict Matters, I had the privilege of speaking with Ryan Lipes of Global Sports Advocates, whose career trajectory from Manhattan prosecutor to SafeSport architect to private practice defender offers unparalleled perspective on America’s evolving safeguarding landscape. Ryan’s unique vantage point—having helped build the U.S. Center for SafeSport during its critical early years before transitioning to represent both claimants and respondents—illuminates the complex tensions between protection and process that define modern sports integrity efforts. The conversation arrives at a pivotal moment. Eight years after the Nassar revelations catalyzed SafeSport’s creation, the system faces both validation of its necessity and criticism of its execution. Recent high-profile cases involving Olympic coaches, the expansion of Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies (MAAPP), and ongoing debates about jurisdictional boundaries have intensified scrutiny of how American sport protects its most vulnerable participants. Meanwhile, parallel challenges in anti-doping—where Ryan and his colleague Paul Greene have achieved notable victories—reveal similar tensions between regulatory intent and practical implementation. This analysis examines three critical dimensions of safeguarding evolution: first, the expansion from reactive investigation to proactive prevention; second, the persistent blind spots at grassroots levels and jurisdictional edges; and third, the systemic improvements necessary for sustainable athlete protection. Ryan’s insights, grounded in both prosecutorial rigor and defense advocacy, offer a roadmap for organizations navigating this complex terrain. The Evolution: From Crisis Response to Systematic Prevention Ryan’s account of SafeSport’s genesis corrects a common misconception: Congress didn’t create SafeSport; the U.S. Olympic Committee did, initially as an internal unit before spinning it off in 2017.1 This organic evolution from within the Olympic movement matters because it reflects recognition by sports leaders themselves that existing structures had failed. The legislative backing that followed—first the Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act of 2017, then the Empowering Olympic, Paralympic and Amateur Athletes Act of 2020—provided crucial federal authority and teeth that purely contractual arrangements lacked. The jurisdictional expansion Ryan describes reveals safeguarding’s true scope. While public perception often limits SafeSport to sexual misconduct cases, its mandate encompasses physical abuse, emotional abuse, bullying, hazing, harassment, and critically, failures to report—the systemic enabler that allowed predators like Nassar to operate for decades.2 This broader mandate reflects hard-learned lessons: abuse rarely occurs in isolation, and cultures that tolerate boundary violations in one domain often harbor violations in others. The shift from pure response to prevention represents SafeSport’s most significant evolution. Ryan highlights the development of MAAPP—detailed policies governing adult-minor athlete interactions that address previously unregulated spaces. The texting example proves instructive: rather than waiting for inappropriate communications to cross into misconduct, MAAPP establishes clear boundaries upfront. Group texts are acceptable; one-on-one texts are not. Parents should be copied; private channels should be avoided. These bright-line rules eliminate ambiguity that predators exploit while protecting well-intentioned coaches from false accusations.3 Training evolution parallels policy development. Ryan notes that SafeSport’s educational offerings have become increasingly sophisticated, moving from generic awareness sessions to ...
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