An Iowa man admitted in court Tuesday to sexually assaulting a western Wisconsin high school student-athlete in 2018 in Woodbury after meeting the teen while employed as a strength and conditioning coach at a training center contracted by the Hudson school district.

Chase Wayne Madison (Courtesy of the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office)

A three-state investigation began in May after a 23-year-old woman told her doctor and then police that her former sports trainer, Chase Wayne Madison, assaulted her several times at his Woodbury apartment, starting when she was a 16-year-old sophomore at Hudson High School, according to charges filed in July.

When the allegations were raised, Madison was a University of Iowa assistant strength and conditioning coach. The college cut ties with him on Aug. 4.

Madison, 40, was arrested in late July in Iowa on a nationwide warrant on charges out of Washington and St. Croix counties. He’s been free on bond since early August, and entered guilty pleas in both counties Tuesday.

‘I had to be careful’

According to court documents, Madison was the head strength and conditioning coach for Catalyst Sports Medicine in Hudson from mid-September 2017 through late May 2019. At the time, the business had a contract with Hudson schools to provide its services for athletes in the high school’s Raider Elite training program.

The woman told investigators she injured herself while training and that Madison connected her with Catalyst to help her rehab. She said she went to Catalyst for rehab sessions with Madison every day or every other day.

At Catalyst, Madison kissed her in a supply closet on more than one occasion, she told police.

While alone at the high school, Madison kissed and fondled her in a shed near the outdoor training field, she said, and also took her hand and forced her to touch him while he was training with her.

“(Madison) told her it was ‘hot’ and that they can’t get caught,” the St. Croix County complaint said.

She said Madison gave her his personal phone number and the two began to communicate through text, calls and FaceTime. She reported Madison asked her to send him photos and videos of her that were sexual in nature, and she complied.

Eventually, Madison invited the teen to his home, where he sexually assaulted her on six or seven different days, she told police.

“(Madison) would tell her not to tell anyone about their relationship,” the complaint said.

In an interview with police in June, Madison said he groped the teen and went no further with his assault. He said she sent him nude photos of herself unsolicited and that he deleted them.

Madison left Catalyst in 2019 and became an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Illinois. He took the same job at the University of Iowa in August 2022 and worked with the volleyball and men’s and women’s track programs, according to a bio on the college’s website.

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A police analysis of Madison’s phone last year uncovered nude photos of the woman when she was a teen, and an Instagram screenshot of her in a bikini that he sent to a friend in 2018.

“The conversation between (Madison) and the friend were sexual in nature discussing the athletes’ bodies, personalities and sexual preferences,” the Washington County complaint read.

Sexually explicit text messages that Madison sent the woman in 2023 and 2024 were also found on his cellphone.

“I still remember you kissing me in the room with the supplies and stereo,” the woman texted Madison in July 2024, to which he replied: “That was hot in the storage room. We should have done that more often,” according to the complaint. He later added, “I had to be careful.”

Two guilty pleas

Madison was once a student-athlete himself. He won state titles in shot put and discus while at Newton High School, located about 30 miles east of Des Moines, and was a member of the track and field teams at Iowa State University and later the University of Kentucky, according to his online college bios.

On Tuesday morning, with his victim looking on from the gallery of a St. Croix County Circuit courtroom, Madison pleaded guilty to felony child enticement with sexual contact.

A plea deal he reached with the prosecution includes the dismissal of two other felonies — sexual assault of a child by a person who works with children and exposing a child to harmful material — and cap a prison sentence at five years. He remains out of custody on bond ahead of his scheduled April 27 sentencing.

Madison then appeared in Washington County District Court via Zoom in the afternoon for what was scheduled as a pre-trial hearing. Instead, he pleaded guilty to the sole count of felony third-degree criminal sexual conduct while holding a position of authority. Sentencing is set for June 1.

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The charges against Madison surfaced amid two highly publicized school cases out of St. Croix County.

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In May 2024, prosecutors filed charges against Madison Bergmann alleging she pursued a then-11-year-old student throughout much of the 2023-24 school year through daily texts and eventually kissed him on the mouth on several occasions in her classroom at Rivercrest Elementary School in Hudson, Wis.

Bergman, 26, of Lake Elmo, pleaded guilty to child enticement with sexual contact and was sentenced to six years in prison in December.

Abigail Michelle Faust, 25, also allegedly kissed a fifth-grade boy in 2024 in her classroom at Rivercrest Elementary. She also failed to report Bergmann’s sexual misconduct of her student, according to a criminal complaint charging her with three felonies.

Faust was also charged in August with various felonies in both St. Croix and Washington counties for allegedly sexually assaulting a Washington County 15-year-old boy while working as his family’s nanny.

Her cases are ongoing.

By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to withhold some public health and transportation money from a group of Democratic-led states.

Full details have not been released, including whether the states could take any steps to avoid losing the funding. The federal government cited concerns over fraud and mismanagement of taxpayer dollars, but has not presented evidence beyond remarks from Trump and others in his administration.

The approach has become a familiar one for the administration, and this time focuses on frequent targets: California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota.

Courts have so far temporarily blocked other similar efforts by this administration to restrict funds.

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The latest effort targets some public health and transportation funds

An Office of Management and Budget official confirmed to The Associated Press that the office is telling the U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to cancel grants totaling more than $1.5 billion, as first reported last week by the New York Post. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the cuts on the record.

The official did provide a partial list of programs facing cuts; some appeared to be targeted because they are not in line with the administration’s policies opposing protections for transgender people and diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Among the transportation funds targeted are money for electric vehicle chargers in all four states, funds to research translating the test for Illinois commercial driver’s licenses into Spanish, and money for California to adapt to climate change.

The health research money includes projects aimed at studying the health impact of specific populations. Among them is one studying groups in Chicago disproportionately affected by sexually transmitted infections: “adolescents, racial and ethnic minorities, and men who have sex with men;” and a grant for California universities focused on ”reducing social isolation among older LGBTQ adults.”

A $7.2 million grant for the American Medical Association, which is based in Chicago, was also on the list, noting its support for gender-affirming care for minors, which a Trump executive order opposes.

States say they haven’t received notice

The offices of the governors of all four states said Tuesday that they had not received any communication from the Trump administration about the plans.

“Time and time again, the Trump Administration has attempted to politicize and punish certain states President Trump does not like,” Jillian Kaehler, a spokesperson for Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, said in a statement. “It’s wrong and often illegal, so Illinois will always fight for the resources and services our taxpayers are owed.”

The administration has targeted funding in Democratic states before

The same states — all of which have Democratic governors — have been targeted by other federal cuts.

A judge last week ruled that the Trump administration cannot stop child care subsidies and other social service programs aimed at lower-income people in those states, plus New York, for now. The states said the federal programs in that effort provide them more than $10 billion a year collectively.

There’s also a legal challenge over the administration’s effort to withhold administrative money for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP food aid, from 22 states that have not provided information on recipients, including their immigration status. Those states include nearly all with Democratic governors. A judge has been asked to decide whether cutting off funding would violate an existing court order that bars the government from collecting the data for now.

Trump has also threatened to halt federal money to sanctuary cities and their states, and followed that up with an order for government agencies to compile data on 14 mostly Democratic-controlled states and the District of Columbia. All four of the states in the latest effort were on that list, too.

Other federal money for Minnesota and Minneapolis has also been targeted.

Associated Press writers Sophie Austin, Fatima Hussein, John O’Connor and Colleen Slevin contributed to this article.

TESERO, Italy — Bruised ribs are undermining American cross-country skiing star Jessie Diggins’ hopes of achieving something satisfying from her last Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina.

Diggins was hurt in a fall in her opening race — the 20-kilometer skiathlon — on Sunday and the toll also limited her ability to put in a strong finish in the sprint classic on Tuesday in Tesero.

The current World Cup leader and one of the most decorated U.S. cross-country skiers was eliminated in the quarterfinals by eventual bronze medalist Maja Dahlqvist of Sweden. Diggins was visibly uncomfortable late in the sprint after a fast start, struggling to generate power in the finishing stretch.

“When I crashed in the skiathlon, I bruised my ribs and it is really painful,” Diggins said. “Double poling is pretty tough right now, so I’m doing the best I can. But it’s not my finest finishing stretch of my life.”

Breathing deeply remains difficult, though she was relieved the ribs were not worse.

“There’s just really not much you can do,” said the Afton native who won gold in the women’s team sprint at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang. “I’m happy that they’re not sprained or broken because I’ve been there with sprained ribs. I know I can do it. It’s just a bummer.”

On Saturday, Diggins, 34, fell early in the skiathlon in heavy, wet snow, losing contact with the lead pack. She rebounded with a strong freestyle leg to finish eighth.

She’s determined to push on in a frustrating start in her final Olympics.

“I’m just going to keep showing up and doing the best I can,” she said, “and just putting everything I have out there.”

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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — At one end of the ice was the brother, pumping his fists. At the other was the sister, jumping up and down with her broom in her hand and a look of disbelief on her bespectacled face.

Isabella and Rasmus Wranå, Sweden’s first team of siblings at the Winter Olympics, won gold in mixed doubles curling on Tuesday night, beating U.S. pair of Duluthians Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin.

Sweden’s Rasmus Wranaa and Isabella Wranaa celebrate in background as United States’ Cory Thiesse hugs with Korey Dropkin at the end of the gold medal mixed doubles curling match against USA, at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

The Wranås persevered through a nailbiter of a championship game in front of a spirited, pro-U.S. crowd and pounced after the Americans left an opening in the last end. Isabella threw the winning stone and hunched close to the ice, watching her brother sweep until their red stone knocked out the Americans’ yellow rock for a 6-5 victory.

“It’s a perfect shot for me to have, a takeout,” Isabella Wranå said. “But of course you’re nervous. It’s the last shot, and you know if you make it, it’s an Olympic gold. But I felt like we kept the calm. We talked about how we’re going to throw it, and I knew that I had a really strong sweeper.”

The Americans made history just by getting this far. They became the first U.S. team to medal in Olympic mixed doubles, and Thiesse is the first American woman to medal in Olympic curling.

“It’s been a long time coming, and this is a really big day for USA Curling and for women’s curling in the U.S. I hope that I can bring this medal home and inspire the next generation of women to be up on that podium someday,” Thiesse said.

The Wranå siblings grew up as rivals and were coached by their father, Mats Wranå.

Their current coach, Alison Kreviazuk, said she saw them work on communication throughout their run.

“They’ve got two different personalities out there, so it’s finding that mix of how they can complement each other,” Kreviazuk said. “Figuring out how to talk with each other, I think that they’ve really, really nailed it over the past couple years, and it’s showcased.”

Throughout the match, the Wranås enjoyed a somewhat silent camaraderie with their small contingent of fans. The two remained stoic while Dropkin played to the crowd, whipping up the loud American supporters.

The Wranås won the world title in 2024. Thiesse and Dropkin won at worlds a year earlier, and Thiesse is the third for the USA’s Team Peterson, which begins play Thursday against South Korea and Sweden.

The Swedish duo started their Olympic bid on stumbly legs, losing three games in a row in the round robin. The skid prompted the Swedish media to label their Olympic bid a “Curlingfiasko.”

But they managed to turn it around and won most of their remaining matches.

It was a heartbreaker for the Americans, who enjoyed roaring support. An American curler screamed from the rafters, “Show me your biceps!” Dropkin obliged.

Thiesse and Dropkin are based in Duluth, Minnesota, and have full-time jobs. Thiesse is a lab technician and Dropkin a real estate agent. Dropkin is engaged and Thiesse is married.

They were classmates in college. Dropkin asked Thiesse to be his mixed doubles partner after a failed qualification run for the Beijing 2022 Games. She agreed and they were world champions a year later.

Italy wins bronze

Italy’s Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner won bronze, defeating Britain 5-3. It was a bittersweet result for the Italians, the defending Olympic champions whose fans packed the stands throughout the round-robin in hopes to see a repeat. And it was devastating for the Brits, Jennifer Dodds and Bruce Mouat, who were expected to make the final after exiting the round-robin with the most wins of any pair.

Sweden’s Rasmus Wranaa and Isabella Wranaa, top, celebrate after winning the curling mix doubles gold medal match against Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse of the United States at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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