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Ex-Nebraska basketball player files lawsuit against school over relationship with former coach
Ashley Scoggin, a former Nebraska Cornhuskers women’s basketball player, accused the head coach of the team and the athletic director of failing to enact safeguards, rules or training to prevent staff members from having sexual relationships with student-athletes.
Scoggin made the accusations in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on Sunday against head coach Amy Williams and athletic director Trev Alberts. The lawsuit detailed how then-associate head coach Chuck Love allegedly took interest in the then-Cornhuskers player as the relationship turned sexual. Scoggin says in the suit it caused her to fear retaliation if she did not engage in it.
University of Nebraska spokesperson Melissa Lee said the school was made aware of the lawsuit on Monday.
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Nebraska’s Ashley Scoggin, #0, plays against Michigan during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, in Lincoln, Nebraska. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz, File)
“While the University does not comment on the specifics of pending litigation, it does not agree with the allegations contained in the complaint and intends to vigorously defend this matter,” Lee said.
Williams declined to comment to the AP, and Alberts and Love did not respond.
Scoggin played for Nebraska during the 2020-21 and 2021–22 seasons before she was eventually dismissed from the team in February 2022. She now plays at UNLV. She was dismissed from the team the same day Love was suspended with pay. He resigned three months later.
The lawsuit named Love, Williams, Albert and the school’s Board of Regents as defendants.
Williams is still the head coach at Nebraska. Alberts signed an eight-year contract extension with the school in November 2023.
The Oregon native started her internship in Nebraska’s athletic department in the summer of 2021, expressing interest in one day becoming a coach herself. Love invited Scoggin to work at a table in his office and she accepted. The lawsuit says Love, who was married, began to ask her out for drinks, and she eventually accepted the invitation.
According to the suit, they met at a Costco parking lot where Love kissed her and asked, “Have you ever done anything with a coach before?” The alleged interaction left the player feeling “confused and trapped” because “it was now undeniable that Love wanted a sexual relationship.”
Nebraska associate head coach Chuck Love speaks to players from the sideline as they play against Michigan during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, in Lincoln, Nebraska. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz, File)
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The relationship allegedly turned sexual, and Scoggin claimed in the lawsuit that Love expected her to be “available and willing” whenever he wanted to have sex and summoned her to his hotel room when the team was on the road.
The lawsuit detailed how the team found out about the relationship.
Scoggin’s teammates and practice players allegedly created a ruse to confirm her relationship with Love and videotape it. According to the suit, a male practice player falsely claimed he was Love to a desk clerk at a hotel they were staying in and obtained a key card. Two team members then confronted Scoggin in Love’s room and told Williams what they discovered and videotaped.
“Williams cast Ashley in the role of a seducer and a liar,” the lawsuit says. “She allowed the players to berate and accuse Ashley for hours. She did not redirect or counsel the players that what they had seen may be the result of an abuse of power by her associate head coach.”
Scoggin says in the suit that when she returned to Lincoln, Nebraska, she was not informed of her rights under Title IX, while Williams and other officials said she was off the team.
“NU, Williams and Alberts were motivated to avoid scandal and embarrassment to the Cornhuskers women’s basketball program instead of being motivated to protect its student-athlete, Ashley,” the lawsuit says.
“NU, Williams and Alberts allowed the speculation and perception to fester that Ashley was ‘equally to blame’ or otherwise had done something improper when they should have sent a clear message that it is always improper for a professional coach to pursue a sexual relationship with a student-athlete.”
Nebraska guard Ashley Scoggin, #0, dribbling the ball against Creighton during an NCAA college basketball game on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska. (AP Photo/John Peterson, File)
Scoggin is seeking a jury trial and unspecified damaged for the alleged violations of her civil rights.
“It’s a very troubling and serious subject of predatory coaches that pursue sexual relationships with student-athletes,” Maren Chaloupka, Scoggin’s attorney, said Monday. “There’s an enormous imbalance of power between the professional coach and student-athletes. This is something that was well known in 2022.
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“Certainly Division I universities that operate at the top level are well aware of the harm that comes from this kind of a predatory situation, and there’s a strong onus on the university and on the coaches to prevent this from happening and, heaven forbid it does happen, to address (it) correctly.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The future of data centers in Nebraska took center stage at a North Omaha town hall Thursday evening.
The event was hosted by State Sens. Terrell McKinney and Ashlei Spivey, who alongside Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh sponsored a bill in the Nebraska Legislature that looked to help regulate data centers.
Parts of their bill were adopted and passed in LB1010, which requires reports on annual power usage, water usage and ownership.
“Having this passed in a package showed a lot of bipartisan work,” Spivey told a crowd of attendees at Nelson Mandela Elementary School.
The proposed regulations were shaped in part by Bold Nebraska, an advocacy group focused on eminent domain and clean energy. Jane Kleeb, chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party and founder of Bold Nebraska, said before the bill passed there were “zero laws on the books” to address a boom in data centers.
“If one is coming into the community, we wanted to make sure that there were some basic transparency things in place,” Kleeb said.
Political discussions around data centers heated up in recent months following reporting by the Flatwater Free Press that showed Google is considering a data center in Nebraska that could require more than three times the amount of power the entire city of Lincoln uses at peak demand in the summer.
The Nebraska Legislature recently passed another bill, LB1261, that allows private developers to build and own power plants to serve a large industrial customer, including data centers. That bill was proposed by the governor’s office and celebrated by Gov. Jim Pillen.
“Our state is once again taking a bold and strategic step – one that will create an environment that attracts business and multibillion dollar investment, while legally preserving Nebraska’s unique and consumer-friendly public power model,” Pillen said at the time.
At Thursday’s town hall, McKinney called LB1261 “the bogeyman bill.”
“It’s a bill that the governor pushed through the legislature to allow for data centers to create their own power,” McKinney said. “It’s a bill that I stood on the floor and said this is going to harm our communities.”
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – Hundreds of people are without power in southeast Nebraska after a severe storm passed through Thursday morning.
The Lincoln Electric System outage map showed 115 customers without power across the city at 11:36 a.m.
Norris Public Power District’s outage map also shows 45 customers affected by the storm. As of 11:36 a.m., there were nine active outages.
According to the Nebraska Public Power District outage map, 657 customers were affected by the storm. Most of the affected customers were near Plattsmouth in southeast Nebraska. As of 11:37 a.m., 27 customers remain without power.
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Mandatory evacuations have been ordered near Crawford, including Fort Robinson State Park, as the South Fork Fire continues to spread in western Nebraska.
According to the City of Crawford, evacuations are currently underway for an area north of Crawford that includes the area south of Dodd Road, west of Dodd Road, and FF Street.
Fort Robinson has also been evacuated.
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission said Fort Robinson State Park and Peterson Wildlife Management Area have been temporarily closed due to the fire.
The fire has burned approximately 9,000 acres and is currently 0% contained, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
Nebraska Game and Parks said the park and the WMA will remain closed until further notice to support firefighting operations and protect public safety.
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