Boy in the Mirror: An Athletic Director's Struggle to Survive Sexual Abuse as a Child

by Bob Welch and Jim Bartko

Book Overview

For forty-four years, Jim Bartko kept a secret: when he was a boy in the 1970s, he was repeatedly sexually molested by his youth basketball coach, a priest. He tried to forget the memory by self-medication, dissociation, and busying himself in his job as an associate athletic director at the University of Oregon and, later, as head athletic director at Fresno State University. When, in 2016, he broke down and told a therapist--then later went public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 173466830X
• ISBN13: 9781734668308
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: James A. Bartko
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"