Former tennis coach Michael Center admitted to taking $60,000 in exchange for designating a teen who did not play tennis as a recruit
BOSTON—Michael Center, the former University of Texas at Austin men’s tennis coach, was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for taking a bribe to flag an applicant as a recruited athlete, even though the boy wasn’t a tennis player.
Mr. Center is the first person to be sentenced in the “Operation Varsity Blues” case who directly profited from the scheme, accepting $60,000 in cash from college counselor William “Rick” Singer in a hotel parking lot in June 2015 in exchange for designating one of Mr. Singer’s clients as a...
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