Yuki Hebner (Photo: Courtesy Wesleyan University Cross Country)
A few months earlier, at Wesleyan University, Cain’s story had a similar impact on another group of women. In March 2020, 36 Wesleyan cross-country and track alumnae signed a letter detailing allegations of a culture of disordered eating, body shaming, and injuries that they experienced under their head coach, John Crooke. They said that Crooke had encouraged athletes to lose weight without guidance from trained nutrition professionals and had provided medically incorrect information to women on the team, leading them to believe that gaining weight caused stress fractures, excess weight led to performance plateaus, and the absence of a menstrual cycle was not a problem.
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On March 31, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in
NCAA v. Alston. It’s one of numerous legal challenges filed over the last decade aimed at expanding the benefits college athletes can receive. The NCAA, an association of more than 1,100 colleges and universities that sets the rules governing college sports, generates more than $1 billion in annual revenue. (March Madness, the finals of which are being held this weekend, generates more than $800 million). While coaches’ salaries and spending on facilities have skyrocketed, financial benefits for college athletes are fixed at an athletic scholarship.
This particular case stems from a 2019 U.S. District Court ruling that the NCAA’s amateurism standard which limits the compensation an NCAA athlete can receive to a full-tuition athletic scholarship violates federal antitrust law.
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