The Amateur Athletic Union, which oversees youth and amateur sports programs for 500,000 participants nationally, has brought in Ron Sachs Communications as it navigates a child molestation probe centered on its former president and CEO.
Sachs is organizing a press conference set for 1 p.m. today for the group following a graphic Dec. 9 ESPN report that two former athletes have accused ex-AAU president Bobby Dodd of molesting them as children and exhibiting questionable behavior in the 1980s.
AAU said it has contacted Memphis police and is expected to announce changes to its safety policies at today’s news conference.
Dodd went on medical leave in November and the group said he will not be returning.
Sachs, which has been counseling Florida A&M University through its hazing crisis, is handling PR and crisis communications for AAU, which is based in Orlando at the Walt Disney Resort.
ESPN called the group “one of the largest and most powerful in youth sports.”