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Post by greenpier on Nov 9, 2023 19:29:57 GMT -5
www.ocregister.com/2023/11/09/usa-volleyball-suspends-beach-icon-sinjin-smith/Sinjin Smith, one of the most dominant and influential players in beach volleyball history, has been suspended indefinitely by USA Volleyball, the sport’s national governing body, the Southern California News Group has learned. Smith, the first player to win 100 open beach volleyball tournaments, has been suspended since May 31 and may not participate or attend USA Volleyball sanctioned events, according to USA Volleyball’s suspended list. The reason for the suspension is listed by USA Volleyball as “U.S. Center for SafeSport administrative hold.”
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Post by ajm on Nov 9, 2023 20:15:38 GMT -5
“I’m not sure why you are hell bent on trying to mess with me?” Smith said in a text Thursday in response to a question about when he was last a member of USA Volleyball. “I think it is time to stop trying to find a way to tarnish my career. You must have better things to do?”
Is there some history between Sinjin and Scott Reid of the OC Register?
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Post by cribbit on Nov 9, 2023 20:31:09 GMT -5
If this is a suspension from May, why is it being reported on now?
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Post by gauchoball11 on Nov 9, 2023 20:47:51 GMT -5
This does not sound good. Anyone have knowledge of what this is?
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Post by netsetter on Nov 9, 2023 20:51:22 GMT -5
Scott Reid does this a lot. Every so often he will go through Safesport and then write articles about what he finds. The timing of it is odd because he usually does this around big events or championships.
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Post by ajm on Nov 9, 2023 21:52:28 GMT -5
Scott Reid does this a lot. Every so often he will go through Safesport and then write articles about what he finds. The timing of it is odd because he usually does this around big events or championships. The Taylor Crabb stuff was discussed here for two years before Reid picked up on it. VolleyTalk must really be going downhill if nobody here posted about this. I do find it hard to believe that Sinjin really has no idea what this is about and only learned of it when Reid asked for comment several months later. |
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Post by netsetter on Nov 9, 2023 22:29:37 GMT -5
He also wrote articles about Wade and Touzinsky. The AVCA refrained from giving out the COY award because of his article until Wade was cleared.
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Post by volleyfanusa on Nov 9, 2023 23:25:43 GMT -5
He’s been on the Safesport list for months. I saw it over the summer… can’t believe nobody else saw it.
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Post by guest2 on Nov 9, 2023 23:33:54 GMT -5
www.ocregister.com/2023/11/09/usa-volleyball-suspends-beach-icon-sinjin-smith/Sinjin Smith, one of the most dominant and influential players in beach volleyball history, has been suspended indefinitely by USA Volleyball, the sport’s national governing body, the Southern California News Group has learned. Smith, the first player to win 100 open beach volleyball tournaments, has been suspended since May 31 and may not participate or attend USA Volleyball sanctioned events, according to USA Volleyball’s suspended list. The reason for the suspension is listed by USA Volleyball as “U.S. Center for SafeSport administrative hold.” Thats a depressing list, although its obviously better than the bad old days when no information was shared and people could continue to participate once outed. Two questions: 1. What is an admin hold and does anyone know what Sinjin did or was accused of? 2. How does Taylor avoid having the word "minor" anywhere in the description of what he did? |
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Post by VT Karen on Nov 9, 2023 23:47:26 GMT -5
www.ocregister.com/2023/11/09/usa-volleyball-suspends-beach-icon-sinjin-smith/Sinjin Smith, one of the most dominant and influential players in beach volleyball history, has been suspended indefinitely by USA Volleyball, the sport’s national governing body, the Southern California News Group has learned. Smith, the first player to win 100 open beach volleyball tournaments, has been suspended since May 31 and may not participate or attend USA Volleyball sanctioned events, according to USA Volleyball’s suspended list. The reason for the suspension is listed by USA Volleyball as “U.S. Center for SafeSport administrative hold.” Thats a depressing list, although its obviously better than the bad old days when no information was shared and people could continue to participate once outed. Two questions: 1. What is an admin hold and does anyone know what Sinjin did or was accused of? 2. How does Taylor avoid having the word "minor" anywhere in the description of what he did? Maybe he didn't complete the Safesport training so there's a hold on his USAV membership? |
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Post by ajm on Nov 10, 2023 0:07:51 GMT -5
Thats a depressing list, although its obviously better than the bad old days when no information was shared and people could continue to participate once outed. Two questions: 1. What is an admin hold and does anyone know what Sinjin did or was accused of? 2. How does Taylor avoid having the word "minor" anywhere in the description of what he did? Maybe he didn't complete the Safesport training so there's a hold on his USAV membership? If that were the case why wouldn’t he just say so? Not sure he’s handling this correctly by claiming he has no idea what this is about and accusing a reporter of trying to tarnish his career. If there’s an innocent explanation, just say what it is. Otherwise he’s probably better off just refusing to comment. That’s one thing Taylor Crabb got right. |
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Post by VT Karen on Nov 10, 2023 0:16:11 GMT -5
Maybe he didn't complete the Safesport training so there's a hold on his USAV membership? If that were the case why wouldn’t he just say so? Not sure he’s handling this correctly by claiming he has no idea what this is about and accusing a reporter of trying to tarnish his career. If there’s an innocent explanation, just say what it is. Otherwise he’s probably better off just refusing to comment. That’s one thing Taylor Crabb got right. Just playing devil's advocate here, but maybe he doesn't care to say anything about it because it's minor and that's why he's accusing this reporter of tarnishing his career. Again, I have no intimate knowledge of what's going on but it's a possibility. |
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Post by psychodriver on Nov 10, 2023 0:39:03 GMT -5
Thats a depressing list, although its obviously better than the bad old days when no information was shared and people could continue to participate once outed. Two questions: 1. What is an admin hold and does anyone know what Sinjin did or was accused of? 2. How does Taylor avoid having the word "minor" anywhere in the description of what he did? Maybe he didn't complete the Safesport training so there's a hold on his USAV membership?
This is what I'm going to assume until I hear otherwise.
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Post by guest2 on Nov 10, 2023 0:48:04 GMT -5
Scott Reid does this a lot. Every so often he will go through Safesport and then write articles about what he finds. The timing of it is odd because he usually does this around big events or championships. Good for him. I'm praying Sinjin's suspension isn't for somethin awful, but someone needs to be pushing this stuff into the public eye. |
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Post by moderndaycoach on Nov 10, 2023 9:08:58 GMT -5
www.ocregister.com/2023/11/09/usa-volleyball-suspends-beach-icon-sinjin-smith/Sinjin Smith, one of the most dominant and influential players in beach volleyball history, has been suspended indefinitely by USA Volleyball, the sport’s national governing body, the Southern California News Group has learned. Smith, the first player to win 100 open beach volleyball tournaments, has been suspended since May 31 and may not participate or attend USA Volleyball sanctioned events, according to USA Volleyball’s suspended list. The reason for the suspension is listed by USA Volleyball as “U.S. Center for SafeSport administrative hold.” Thats a depressing list, although its obviously better than the bad old days when no information was shared and people could continue to participate once outed. Two questions: 1. What is an admin hold and does anyone know what Sinjin did or was accused of? 2. How does Taylor avoid having the word "minor" anywhere in the description of what he did? Typically safesport/USAV will put an administrative hold on you for something as simple as not completing your safesport training, or if you are the listed director or operator and one of your employees or people under you commit a safesport/USAV violation your status also becomes in question if you were found to be negligent or intentionally deceitful or something along those lines. It could also be as simple as someone listed his name on a roster, or just uploaded an outdated coaches roster where he was listed and it is showing him non complient. I am going to hope it is just something as simple as him not completing the module, but could also be something he had no control over. As far as the Taylor thing, people have been asking about that for a while. The initial story that came out was he was just extremely drunk at a PVL playdate and that is why it came up alcohol offense - which is just crazy because those events were basically BYOB open gyms and everyone knew. Just crazy how the coverup went knowing what we all know now with how many stories line up. |
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