Disgraced San Jose State athletic director lands new job in Utah

OAKLAND calif., – The previous disgraced San Jose State College athletic director who resigned due to sexual abuse, bullying and retaliation allegations, has been employed at Southern Utah College. 

Southern Utah Athletic director Doug Knuth stated in an announcement Tuesday that he was “thrilled” to have Marie Tuite on the college. She is going to function the pinnacle of exterior operations and COO. She begins Wednesday. 

Southern Utah, a member of the Massive Sky Convention, is a public College in Cedar Metropolis, Utah, with 14,000 college students – half the scale of San Jose State. 

“She is properly revered all through Division I athletics and has earned nice assist from coaches, athletes, and college directors who’ve labored immediately together with her through the years,” Knith wrote. “Marie will likely be an excellent mentor for our coaches and employees in assist of our gifted scholar athletes.”

However Tuite’s time at SJSU paints an alternate set of info. 

Tuite oversaw the college’s athletic division whereas Scott Shaw, a SJSU athletic coach, was allegedly sexually assaulting athletes. 

KTVU spoke to 13 former SJSU gymnasts who stated they had been mentally and verbally abused by their coach, Wayne Wright, which has led to long run monetary and psychological anguish. 

Tuite oversaw the division on the time that the alleged abuse happened. 

After a college investigation into the bullying claims, San Jose State sided with the gymnasts. 

The college stated they had been involved for Wright’s disregard for the well being and security of his staff, the educational course of, use of inappropriate phrases to explain feminine athletes, his dishonesty in the course of the investigation and his creation of an atmosphere of concern, intimidation and lack of respect.

However Tuite didn’t hearth Wright, and as an alternative allowed him to retire. He’s nonetheless receiving a $34,000 state pension. 

Earlier than she left San Jose State, Tuite was named in three wrongful termination or retaliation lawsuits that the college finally settled for a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars}. In a type of circumstances, Tuite was accused of bullying Sage Hopkin, based on the Mercury Information. 

Amy Le Clair, a former gymnast who received an undisclosed settlement for sexual abuse whereas at SJSU, referred to as Tuite’s hiring extremely weird and disappointing. 

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“Are you hiring her as a result of she’s good at protecting issues up?” Le Clair requested rhetorically in an interview on Tuesday. “You will need to want somebody to cowl one thing up.”

Her new employer, nevertheless,  made no point out of Tuite’s questionable tenure at San Jose State within the announcement her hiring.  

In truth, a piece of the information launch about Tuite’s new put up has a particular part titled “Reward for Tuite.”

“I’ve identified Marie Tuite for the previous ten years and discover her essentially the most trustworthy and devoted particular person I’ve ever met at San Jose State College,” Jim Thompson, founder and chairman of Crown Worldwide Group, wrote in a testimonial on the varsity’s web site.  

KTVU wished to query Southern Utah about this obvious discrepancy between Tuite’s historical past at San Jose State and the kudos she was being showered with.

However Southern Utah representatives denied KTVU’s request for an interview.