American figure skater Tarah Kayne said she provided the U.S. Center for SafeSport with details of verbal and emotional abuse from Dalilah Sappenfield, who served as her coach during a pairs partnership with Danny O'Shea.
Christine Brennan of USA Today reported Friday the U.S. Center for SafeSport has barred Sappenfield from contacting 12 figure skaters and required her other coaching sessions be supervised by an adult while it investigates the allegations.
Kayne, who recently retired from the sport, told Brennan she cut her wrist after a conversation with Sappenfield in 2019 where the coach threatened to end her partnership with O'Shea "not because of my skill set, she said, but because of the kind of person I was.