Northwestern former football and volleyball players announce hazing lawsuits.
against Northwestern were filed last week by individual football players represented by the Salvi firm.Yates, the first former Northwestern football player to be named in his lawsuit, describes a practice called “running” in which players forcibly held down a nonconsenting individual and “[rubbed] their genital areas against the [person’s] genitals, face, and buttocks while rocking back and forth.
Yates’s lawsuit, which names only Northwestern University as a defendant, accuses longtime assistant coach Matt MacPherson “of witnessing acts of hazing and not stopping them or reporting them.” It also includes an account from an unnamed player who claims he was a minor when sexually abused and suffered “an injury as a result of the violent hazing.
The former volleyball player alleges in the lawsuit that Davis retaliated against her for reporting the hazing, keeping her off the court during games and not allowing her to travel on road trips. The former player said she met with Northwestern Athletic Director Derrick Gragg during the 2021-22 academic year and that he did nothing in response. The former player said the bullying and harassment continued until she retired because of medical issues in December 2022.
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