Billions flow through youth sports. And some of it keeps disappearing. In cities across the U.S., allegations of financial misconduct divide non-profit clubs and communities.
BEND, Ore. — Tara Bilanski was already a household name in the Pacific Northwest soccer scene when she was named executive director of the Bend FC Timbers in 2016. A former professional player who had coached at the highest levels collegiately, she found a more lucrative opportunity in the well-financed world of youth soccer.
In Bend, an idyllic former mill town nestled in the shadow of the Cascade Mountain range and known as a playground for outdoor enthusiasts, the soccer club has traditionally been a pillar of the community, a rallying point for neighbors who sip coffee together on the sidelines and organize carpools to after-school practices. The Bend FC Timbers has counted more than 2,000 youth players among its ranks, many who pay as much as $1,600 in annual dues.
According to court records, neither Bilanski nor Davin obtained approval from the Timbers board to keep those funds and attempted to conceal the transactions by allegedly representing their work running the Timbers-owned summer camps as “a profit-sharing agreement” that would pay Bilanski and Davin a kickback of 85 percent of the camp revenue.
under the Portland Timbers Major League Soccer team and the Portland Thorns National Women’s Soccer League team. With roughly 30 teams competing for the club, the Bend summer camps had become a major draw under Bilanski, who had charged around $150 in entry fees for the camps. “If [the Bend Timbers board doesn’t] give up we will start a new club, take a crap ton of kids and bankrupt them,” the former Timbers treasurer wrote in a text that was included in court filings.
Bilanski and several former employees downloaded over 7,000 documents and edited, shared or deleted hundreds of documents from Timbers Google Workspace IT systems in the 11 days after Bilanski was fired, according to the lawsuit; when the administrator told Davin she was removing certain files, Davin allegedly responded: “Delete f---ing away.”
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