I’m assuming I’m not the only swimmer who was upset that every headline has to read “Swimmer†when talking about Brock Turner and what he’s done. Not only because it’s irrelevant, but because I love swimming. It was what helped me through my sexual assault.
I was 16 and I never once called it what it was. It wasn’t aggressive or forceful like they explained it in school. I didn’t need to fight. I didn’t go straight to the hospital because I was cut up and needed medical help. But I knew what had happened was wrong, and I was destroyed from it.
I was told I owed it to him. I planned a day with a group of friends I had met at a leadership conference, but when the day arrived everyone bailed except one guy. While I tried to say we’d get together another time, he insisted on coming up anyway. He drove a long way to come up for the day, and from the moment he arrived, my gut was telling me something was wrong.
All day we hung out at the local lake club with all my friends, and all day I wished he wasn’t there. When the day was coming to an end, I drove him back to my house to get his car and finally send him on his way. When we got there, he told me he’d never been hiking before, and noticed the thick woods behind my house and the Appalachian Trail leading into them. He asked if we could go for a quick hike before his long drive home, because “I owed it to him†for driving all that way. My stomach felt like I had just gone over the hump on a roller coaster and was in my throat.
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