Guilty Admissions by Nicole LaPorte
Author:Nicole LaPorte
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: None
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2020-08-09T00:00:00+00:00
In a photograph of the Springfield College womenâs swim team, taken in 1983, Donna Heinel is in the back row on the far end. The only swimmer who is not wearing one of those glossy, satiny team jackets from the era of all things glossy and satiny, Heinel is wearing just her team swimsuit. Sheâs also the only member of the team not looking into the camera and smiling. Instead, sheâs staring off into the distance with a blank look.
The photograph was taken Heinelâs senior year at Springfield, where sheâd been an All-American swimmer and a standout in freestyle and the one-hundred-meter individual medley. âShe was one of the best swimmers, if not the best, at Springfield College,â said Mary Ellen Olcese, the head womenâs swim coach at Springfield, a Division III school, when Heinel was there. âAs an athlete, she was a really hard worker. She was a main stalwart of the team.â
But out of the pool, Olcese said, she kept a distance from her peers. âShe was not a warm, fuzzy person. She was not the person everyone clung to. She was a good teammate, but she took to herself.â
John Bransfield, who coached diving at Springfield then, said, âDonna was a very independent human being. She was extremely dynamic. She walked her own walk.â
Heinel has admitted to having her own struggles growing up, telling an LGBTQ panel in 2013 that when she came out as gay to her parents, she didnât have a relationship with her family for two and a half years. As a result, she said, âIâve been a loner for most of my life. Because from early on, and that reaction from my parents. Iâve just been someone that just, I do what I want to do when I want to do it.â
After graduating from Springfield with a degree in physical education, Heinel pursued coaching, volunteering first for Olcese at Springfield and then landing a job at the University of Massachusetts as the womenâs water polo head coach and assistant coach for womenâs swimming. In 2003, she switched gears into sports administration and arrived at USC, where she started as an assistant athletic coordinator.
Tall and wiry, with short-cropped blond hair and a thin, chiseled face, Heinel arrived at the office every morning at seven and kept her nose to the grindstone. She was someone who got the job done efficiently and without complaint or drama. âShe was a pretty hard worker, pretty serious and in a rush,â said Myron Dembo, who was Donna Heinelâs academic supervisor when she completed her doctor of education degree at USC in 2006. âShe didnât have time to schmooze.â Indeed, Heinel was intensely private, never sharing information about her personal life with colleaguesâshe lived with her partner and their two childrenâin part because she didnât feel the atmosphere at USC was very gay-friendly. At the time, most gay student athletes at USC didnât come out to their teammates, and the general attitude within the athletic department was donât ask, donât tell.
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