Swimming

ALGONAC, Mich. — A long-distance swimmer plans to swim 22 miles across Lake St. Clair this summer while hauling dinghies filled with 2,000 pounds of bricks.

Jim Dreyer has made direct crossings of each of the five Great Lakes. He’s scheduled to begin his swim on Aug. 5 from the Clinton River Boat Club near Algonac, and the event is to raise funds and awareness for Habitat for Humanity. The swim is expected to take 30 hours and end Aug. 6 at Detroit’s Belle Isle.

OGDEN — Setting aside their prior arguments about civility, the prosecution and the defense scheduled a new sentencing hearing for the former Ben Lomond High School swim coach convicted of sexual relations with one of her swimmers.

“The state sees this request for a continuance as a tactic to further delay the imposition of a sentence in this case,” Deputy Weber County Attorney Teral Tree wrote in a motion objecting to the cancellation of Jamie Waite’s sentencing hearing, which had been set for today.

The case has gone on for more than two years with four different trial dates before trial finally began in February, Tree noted.

 SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah announced Monday it is hiring a pair of outside investigators to review allegations of physical abuse and inappropriate behavior by the school’s ousted swim coach.

The university already has said it won’t renew the contract of suspended swim coach Greg Winslow based on allegations that he sexually abused a teenage girl he coached in Arizona six years ago.

Winslow has been on paid suspension since Feb. 28, when University of Utah officials were made aware of the Arizona allegations.

SALT LAKE CITY—Utah Director of Athletics Dr. Chris Hill announced Monday that the school will not renew swimming and diving coach Greg Winslow’s contract when it comes up in June.

Winslow has been suspended because of allegations that he sexually abused a teenage girl he coached in Arizona six years ago.

Winslow was in his sixth season as the Utes’ swim coach. 

OGDEN — The alleged student victim of a Ben Lomond High swimming coach’s advances testified Thursday to their sex life and why he first denied then minimized it.

OGDEN — A 2nd District Court jury was treated to a rousing start Wednesday in the three-day trial of a former Ben Lomond High School swim coach accused of sexual relations with one of her swimmers.

 The prosecution objected three times in the first two minutes of the opening arguments of the defense as Jamie Waite’s lawyer Randall Marshall opined, “The state doesn’t care about the truth. The state just wants a conviction.”