Thank you for this question.
I would have loved to have the knowledge that an organization was there for me. It was the late 1990s and early 2000s and the #MeToo movement, which helped a lot in the sensitization of people, was not known at that time. I would have loved to know and to have that education that if you get hit or if a coach says that kind of thing to you, it's not right. I didn't have any other support and I didn't have any other role models, so I would have needed to know, one, what was acceptable or not and, two, that there was a place that was clearly and easily accessible and that I could have called to ask.
Just those two basic things would have made a huge difference. I'm not certain.... You know, a little further on, with all the abuse when it continued and progressed, I cannot know for sure if I would have called, but just knowing that it was there would have probably changed something—changed my future.