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A former track and cross country coach at a small Christian college in Indiana is accused of forcibly doping and sexually abusing some of his female athletes—including while some of them lived in the basement of the home he shared with his wife.
In an explosive federal lawsuit filed this fall, former Huntington University runners Emma Wilson and Hannah Stoffel say ex-trainer Nick Johnson injected them with unknown substances and raped and molested Stoffel repeatedly from July to November 2020.
According to the complaint, Johnson’s alleged abuse went unchecked as his wife, fellow track coach Lauren Johnson, and other enablers at the university looked the other way. Stoffel and Wilson “were victims of a coach” who “gave Larry Nassaresque massages all the while acting like Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France pharmacist injecting unknown substances into their bodies,” the lawsuit states.
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