The volleyball player, referred to as Jane Doe in a complaint reviewed by The Daily Beast, accuses coach Shane Davis of humiliating students by “blasting” balls at them and goading team captains into doling out “punishments against the other players.”
to the student paper about hazing that included upperclassmen allegedly “dry-humping” younger team members while wearing “Purge-like” masks.
For Doe, who was on Northwestern’s volleyball team from 2019 to the end of 2022, the initiation rites were allegedly so severe she required medical attention. During the probe, Northwestern’s Deputy Athletics Director Travis Goff encouraged players and their parents to write letters in support of Davis to university president Morton Schapiro, the lawsuit says. While Doe never received a copy of Northwestern’s final investigation report, Davis’s contract as head volleyball coach was renewed.
Around the beginning of the 2022-2023 academic year, Northwestern’s deputy director of athletics for operations and capital projects, Deneé Barracato, held a “culture meeting” with the team “as a result of multiple complaints against” Davis, the suit alleges.
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