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Eight women’s college soccer, volleyball and track and field athletes submitted the charm to challenge their homes v. NCAA Antimonopoly Act.
US District Judge Claudia Wilken approved the settlement last week. Direct payment From university to athletes.
Eight women claim that female athletes do not receive a significant percentage of $2.7 billion in backpay for athletes who are forbidden from making money from their names, images and portraits (nil).
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Breeding Casey from Vanderbilt. Lexi Drum, Emma Appleman, Emmy Wannemacher, Riley Haas, Savannah Baron, Elizabeth Arnold of the University of Charleston. And Virginia’s Kate Johnson leads the suit. They all challenged the previously proposed settlement.
Ashlyn Hare, one of the lawyers representing athletes, said in a statement that the settlement violates Title IX, a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on gender in education.
“We support a settlement in this case, but not inaccurate in violation of federal law. Past damage calculations are based on errors that ignore Title IX and take female athletes out of $1.1 billion,” Hare said. “Paying money as proposed would be a massive mistake that causes irreparable harm to women’s sports.”
The House settlement is likely to receive the majority of the $20.5 million annual annual figures to benefit soccer and basketball stars at the biggest schools financially, which universities are allowed to share with athletes over the next year. Some athletes from other sports who aren’t making money for their school may lose their partial scholarships or see their roster being cut.
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“It’s soccer and basketball undermines the settlement without real benefits for female athletes,” Hare said. “Congress has explicitly rejected efforts to exempt revenue-generating sports such as soccer and basketball from the Title IX anti-discrimination order. NCAA I agreed to us. Our discussion of appeal is the exact same discussion that the meeting and the NCAA had before the case was resolved. ”
The appeal filed by law firm Hutchinson Black and a chef from Boulder, Colorado, was first reported by Front Office Sports. It will be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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