Former Towson diving coach Maureen Mead has been sentenced to three years of probation after reaching a plea deal in three charges levied against her.
Mead pleaded guilty to two of the charges – visual surveillance and altering evidence – while a third charge of intercepting communications was dropped by prosecutors.
The charges stemmed from an incident last October when Mead’s phone was found recording inside the women’s locker room while the team was changing. 7 of the women in the locker room at the time testified in the plea hearing, stating that they felt their trust had been violated.
All of the charges are dated October 16th, after which time Maureen Mead was put on an administrative leave by the university. Her employment at Towson ended November 24th, and while a spokesperson has said she did not resign, said that no further details were available on what he called a “personnel matter.”
After the incident, all three of Towson’s coaches (Mead, Mead’s husband and head coach Pat Mead, and assistant coach Adrienne Phillips) were placed on leave soon after the incident, and both Phillips and Pat Mead resigned December 31st. Jake Shrum, a former assistant, is now the acting head coach and Tim Perkins is the acting diving coach.
Now that’s what I call love, when the wife takes the fall for her husband . . . there’s been shadiness surrounding that program for waaaaaay too long.
Seriously.