Two Former Faculty Swim Coaches Given SafeSport Bans

A pair of former faculty swim coaches have been added to the U.S. Center for SafeSport and USA Swimming public databases.

Former University of Pacific graduate assistant Bobby Yribarren was banned on May 4, 2026, although that’s topic to enchantment and never but closing.

Yribarren was beforehand listed as suspended for “intimate relationship – involving a member” by the U.S. Center for SafeSport. At the time, he was suspended for 3 years from May 2021 till May 18, 2024.

He is not listed within the USCFSS database, however is listed in USA Swimming’s database as a banned particular person as of final week for “sexual misconduct” and “other misconduct” together with a legal disposition. The ban cites a number of sections of the USA Swimming Code of Conduct together with these associated to sexual misconduct, these associated to offering alcohol to a minor athlete, and the sale or distribution of unlawful medicine or medicine on the AQUA banned record.

Yribarren spent three years as a graduate assistant on the University of the Pacific. He is at the moment listed because the “Kitchenmaster” on the Cambridge Zen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was beforehand the “Housemaster” and “Workmaster” there.

In April, Mike Richmond, the previous head coach of the varsity swim group on the University of Nevada, was added to the U.S. Center for SafeSport database with a short lived suspension for Allegations of Misconduct. The nature of these allegations weren’t listed, and he was additionally give a no contact directive.

Richmond spent 5 seasons as the pinnacle coach at Nevada from 2007 via 2012. He was named the 2008 WAC Coach of the Year. Prior to being elevated to interim, after which full-time, head coach, he was an assistant with this system for eight seasons.

After leaving Nevada, he moved right into a full-time position as the pinnacle coach of the Sparks Piranhas, a USA Swimming group in Sparks, Nevada, the place he’s nonetheless listed as President, CEO, and Head Coach.

Before his time at Nevada, he spent 11 years as the pinnacle coach of the Lubbock Swim Club in Lubbock, Texas.

SwimSwam was unable to find any legal data for Richmond, however has reached out to him for remark.