The U.S. Olympic Committee Thursday did its best to turn the page on the darkest hour in its history by naming an Olympic outsider as its new CEO. Sarah Hirshland is not an expert on sexual abuse. Nor is she particularly well connected to the political world in Washington that has recently put on display the horrors committed in our Olympic sports.
But what she is just might be good enough: a fresh start for a beleaguered organization desperately in need of some kind of change. Never heard of Hirshland? That’s exactly the point.
At 43, she navigated the often arcane world of golf for seven years, most recently as the U.