Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Women's Basketball Coach Fired After She Suspends Two Players For Dating


Story out of Prairie View, Texas:

The unnamed players had filed a Title IX complaint, claiming that Brown discriminated against them because they were gay, according to a university memo obtained by USA Today Sports. Brown, however, has said that she suspended the players because they broke a team rule that prohibits players, coaches or other team staff from dating one another — regardless of whether it's a male-female relationship or otherwise. Brown supposedly put the rule in place after an assistant coach was caught having a relationship with a player.

But in its own investigation, Prairie View A&M sided with the athletes, finding that suspending the players based on their dating relationship violated both Texas A&M system policy and Title IX because it discriminated based on sexual orientation, according to the memo. Cont.

Story from - Houston Press

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