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'Tough love' coaching style prompts abuse concerns on Stanford's water polo team

Xuan Thai

created: July 9, 2025, 11:46 a.m. | updated: July 10, 2025, 1:25 a.m.

Open Extended ReactionsIn the world of water polo, three things ring true: It's exclusive, expensive and everyone seems to know each other. So, when Stanford University began investigating its men's water polo coach, Brian Flacks, the school's water polo community took notice. Harvard, Princeton and Brown are among the 28 Division I schools offering men's water polo. Because of "the magnitude of improvements to Stanford Water Polo," he added, "I wrote a $100,000 check to Lifetime Cardinal," Stanford's NIL collective. The ongoing drama continues to cast a shadow over the team's efforts to focus on water polo and recapture Stanford's former glory.

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