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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Sport
Matthew Hall

‘It shattered my world’: an Ohio soccer coach, sexual misconduct and the system that has protected him

NCAA women's soccer
Brad Evans’ 13-year tenure at the University of Toledo saw the team win three Mid-American Conference regular-season championships and four MAC tournament titles. Photograph: Marc Atkins/Getty Images

Candice Fabry finished training with the under-nine girls team she coached and drove to El Camino Real, a restaurant in Toledo, Ohio. Fabry knew the restaurant from her time as a player with the University of Toledo women’s soccer team. Players would often go there and, according to a team joke, the restaurant didn’t necessarily have the best margaritas in Toledo but it definitely had “the most-known”.

It was July 2007, and Fabry was planning to meet University of Toledo women’s soccer coach Brad Evans and his wife at El Camino Real – as well as the team’s assistant coach Jennifer Whipple. Fabry had previously played for four years on the University of Toledo women’s soccer team, who compete in the Mid-American Conference.

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