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LENOIR-RHYNE GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYERS SUE UNIVERSITY OVER CENSORSHIP: One player, Laney Fox, released an audio recording of a Zoom meeting in March during which Smith said he did not want her back. Fox, who is white, later posted an angry four-page letter on Facebook accusing university President Fred Whitt of “failing Black students and athletes on this campus.” Now, the divisions within the Lutheran-affiliated university have surfaced 60 miles away in the Mecklenburg County courts as a $26 million lawsuit pitting the departing student-athletes against their former coach and school. In their complaint, the players including Butler High graduate Michaela Dixon of Matthews say they were either thrown off the team or pressured to quit in retaliation for their stands against racism and police violence and in support of social justice. Five of the plaintiffs are white; four are black. Fox’s dismissal, the president said at the t
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Eight former Lenoir-Rhyne University basketball players and a team manager filed a lawsuit against the university on Thursday, alleging they were kicked off the womenâs basketball team after speaking out against racism.
The eight former players and manager are seeking $27 million in damages against the university, womenâs basketball coach Grahm Smith and University President Fred Whitt, according to the initial complaint, filed in Mecklenburg County Superior Court.
Problems in the team surfaced in April, when Laney Fox, a former womenâs basketball player for Lenoir-Rhyne, publicly accused the university of dismissing her from the team after speaking out against racism after the police killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Kentucky resident Breonna Taylor last year.
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