Women's Hoops Blog

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Monday, August 13, 2007

Some interesting (in an unpleasant way) out of Florida Gulf Coast University.
Former Florida Gulf Coast University women's basketball assistant coach LeAnn Freeland said she was called "baby" and shown material of a sexually suggestive nature by a male colleague during her four years of working at the school.

She said she didn't complain formally to the FGCU athletic administration because "I was already familiar with the inequitable reprimands distributed among 'friends' and 'foes' of the athletics administration.
University spokesperson Susan Evans professed to be shocked. "I've never heard anything along those lines," said Evans, who among her duties was being the school's senior women's administrator from 2000-04.