USA Gymnastics has suspended a second coach at the New Jersey gymnastics club that employed Maggie Haney, the coach of Olympic and World champions, who is currently under investigation for verbal and emotional abuse of young athletes.

Victoria Levine, a coach and co-owner of MG Elite, was placed on an interim suspension by USA Gymnastics Tuesday and prohibited from having any unsupervised contact with minor-age athletes while the organization investigates allegations of verbal and emotional abuse against her.

The investigation was prompted by allegations made by parents of MG Elite gymnasts and as well as testimony from USA Gymnastics’ on-going hearing on verbal and emotional abuses against Haney.

Haney was placed on interim suspension and prohibited from having any contact with minor athletes on Feb. 3, the first day of the USA Gymnastics hearing.

Olympic champion Laurie Hernandez and at least a half-dozen families have filed complaints with USA Gymnastics against Haney, according to USA Gymnastics documents and six people familiar with the cases.

Russell Prince, an attorney for Haney, described the allegations against her as “patently false.”

Hernandez reported complaints against Haney to Rhonda Faehn, then USA Gymnastics senior vice president for the women’s program, shortly after the 2016 Olympic Games.

Haney is alleged to have screamed, sworn at, threatened, bullied, and harassed gymnasts on a regular basis, according to USA Gymnastics documents and interviews with six people familiar with the complaints. Haney has also told injured gymnasts to remove boot casts and to continue training and competing, according to USA Gymnastics documents and interviews.

Hernandez’s success propelled Haney, a former North Carolina State gymnast, to global prominence. Hernandez was a member of the 2016 Olympic gold medal-winning team and also won a silver medal on the balance beam at the Rio de Janeiro Games.

She is currently training at Gym-Max in Costa Mesa, the same club that produced Olympic and World champion Kyla Ross.

Haney also coached Riley McCusker, a member of the gold medal-winning U.S. squad in the team competition at the 2018 World Championships. McCusker missed the World Championships last fall because of a muscle ailment frequently linked to overtraining. She shifted her training base in mid-February to Arizona Sunrays in Phoenix where she trains with multiple World Championships medalist Jade Carey and is coached Brian Carey, Jade’s father.

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