Former Texas tennis coach Michael Center sentenced to six months in college admissions scandal
Former Texas men’s tennis coach Michael Center was sentenced to six months in prison Monday for accepting $100,000 in 2015 to help the son of a Silicon Valley venture capitalist get into the school by falsely designating him as a skilled athlete worthy of a scholarship to play for Center’s nationally ranked program.
Center, 55, received the sentence in a federal courtroom in Boston from U.S. Judge Richard Stearns, in whose court Center pleaded guilty last April to a single count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.
Center is the 15th person and the second coach to be sentenced in the 2019 nationwide college admissions scandal. He was the first person to be sentenced by Stearns, who according to a USA Today reporter who was in the courtroom on Monday, said Center’s actions “impugn the entire integrity in something that this country is so proud of — and that’s the education system in this country.”
Center sobbed when Stearns announced the sentence, according to the reporter, who tweeted that Center’s attorney, John Cunha, had stressed to the judge that the criminal act was inconsistent with Center’s character.
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