'The girl who discovered the camera said her life changed from that moment.
"Matt would never do that," she said. "I checked, I turned over the phone. I was scared, terrified, what will he do?"
She said she was overcome with fear and ran away when new coaches were assigned and wanted to show the swimmers a video in the office.
The girl said she feels anxiety every time there is a news story and that if Coward had pleaded guilty at the time she would have felt better. She said she had been forced to think about a trial.
"I thought he believed in me," she said, "I trusted him and his coaching methods. I’m now more cautious, checking for danger.
"The main thing I have lost is trust, it’s hard to trust new coaches, teachers.
"I avoid one-on-one conversations. It’s hard to make new friends. It’s hard to come to terms with what happened, hard to understand he knew exactly what he was doing."
Another child described how she used to love swimming, but that training is now a burden.
Coward, she said, was like a father figure, but she is now much less open and happy, and finds it difficult to trust people, men in particular, including the new coach who has done nothing wrong.
She also spoke about how her family and parents blame themselves and how her mother and father are still suffering.'