Former track coach sentenced to 5 years in jail for duping athletes into sending nude photos

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A former college track and field coach was sentenced to five years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, after he tricked hundreds of women into sending him naked photos of themselves.

Steve Waithe ran a scheme in which he obtained "thousands" of explicit photos from "over 100 women" through fake email and social media accounts.

The Department of Justice said while coaching at Northeastern, Waithe "requested the cell phones of female student-athletes under the pretense of ‘filming their form’ at practices and meets and then covertly sending himself explicit photos of the victims that had previously been saved on their phones."

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Pedestrians walk near a Northeastern University sign on the school's campus in Boston. Steve Waithe, of Chicago, a former track and field coach at Northeastern University accused of setting up sham social media and email accounts in an attempt to trick women into sending him nude or semi-nude photos of themselves pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston, prosecutors said. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi, File)

After he no longer worked for the school, he operated over 20 sham accounts, and even made up two female personas, and reached out to many women regarding a fake study for athletes in which he requested photos to "track their progress" — he recommended the photos "show as much skin as possible."

He also cyberstalked another individual, hacking into her Snapchat account and finding more nude photos, and offered to exchange such photos on other websites.

"This defendant’s conduct is deplorable. He exploited his trusted role as a coach