High School Baseball Coach Faces Termination After Reports of Sexual Harassment, he is Appealing

An Alachua County Public Schools (ACPS) baseball coach who was nicknamed “Pedo-Yeck” by Santa Fe High School (SFHS) students is appealing after being recommended for termination.

SFHS Coach Travis Yeckring was placed on administrative leave in March 2024 amid allegations of sexual misconduct.

In November 2024, administrators Michele Faulk and David Rendek were placed on administrative leave amid allegations that they, along with retired principal Timothy Wright, failed to protect a child from Yeckring's sexual harassment.

On June 19, 2025, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) Special Agent Rebekah McKinzie pressed charges via sworn complaint against Rendek, Faulk and Wright for one count of child neglect and one count of failing to report suspected child abuse. 

On January 8, 2026, the Eighth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office (SAO8) released a lengthy memorandum on the case. SAO8 publicly stated that FDLE "agents explicitly stated that Mr. Yeckring had not committed any provable criminal act." SAO8 also announced that they would not prosecute Rendek, Faulk and Wright, calling the charges a “novel legal theory.” 

On June 16, 2026, GnvInfo followed up with ACPS Spokeswoman Jackie Johnson about the employments of Rendek, Faulk, and Yecking. She advised, “Mr. Rendek is working in Human Resources. Mr. Yeckring has been recommended for termination--he is appealing. Michele Faulk is retired.”

According to the FDLE investigation, Yeckring told one of the victims “that she looked like another female student and that [she] was beautiful, unique, and that she was not like other girls. He then told her that she was different and pretty in her own way. This shocked and scared the victim.” Yeckring later obtained the victim’s contact information and sent her a selfie where he was shirtless.

The victim reported, that “she went to the front office to speak with Rendek. She told Rendek about both incidents with Yeckring. Rendek replied that this wasn't the first time he’d ‘heard of this.’ The victim believed that Rendek meant Yeckring had done this to other girls. Rendek told [her] that Yeckring would never speak to her again and that she would never see him again. Approximately a week later, the victim attended her 6th period class. Yeckring was the substitute teacher for her class. The victim felt as though Rendek didn’t take her complaints seriously since Yeckring was substituting in her class only a week later.”

Regarding another victim, she reported that she was in her cheerleading uniform, and accidentally forgot to change from her regular bra to a sports bra. She advised that Yeckring looked at her “up and down and asked if we were sponsored by Victoria’s Secret," which was the brand she was wearing. She advised that under "the mesh top strap, the bra and its label would have been visible but she said one would have to ‘look hard’ to see it.”

The victim further reported how Yeckring invited her over to his apartment to “see his black lab.” The victim recalled how SFHS coaches Kelly Hodson and Sydney Boukari told her things like, “Don’t feed into him,” “be aware of your surroundings,” and “be smart.” They reportedly told her that Yeckring was “harmless.”

Regarding another victim, she described how she’d often run passes around as a school job and said that Yeckring “intercepted her outside of the Dean’s Office and followed her to her destination approximately 70-75 times. She became uncomfortable with Yeckring following her.”

Yeckring’s behavior reportedly caused the victim enough distress that she sometimes had another student tag along with her to feel protected or would conduct “countersurveillance in an effort to see Yeckring before he saw her. Once she located him in the hallways, she’d intentionally take longer and obscure routes to avoid Yeckring finding and following her." Yeckring reportedly told the victim that he wanted to visit the shared residence of her and her friend after they graduated high school.

The victims and incidents described in this article are a fraction of several that are accounted for in the full report.