Utah State fires 4 within the athletics division
Utah State College has fired 4 athletics officers within the wake of an exterior assessment into the establishment’s dealing with of Title IX complaints, The Cache Valley Every day reported this week.
The officers are Amy Crosbie, govt affiliate athletics director for inside affairs and senior girl administrator; Blake Anderson, head soccer coach; Jerry Bovee, affiliate vice chairman and deputy athletic director of exterior affairs; and Austin Albrecht, director of participant improvement and neighborhood.
Directors introduced the latter three firings final week, noting that Anderson was terminated “for actions taken in spring 2023,” whereas Bovee and Albrecht have been terminated for “violations of college insurance policies associated to the reporting of sexual and home violence and failures {of professional} tasks.”
USU wouldn’t verify to the Every day whether or not Crosbie’s firing was related to the assessment.
By way of an lawyer, Bovee has denied any wrongdoing on his or his colleagues’ half, stating that the incident the announcement referred to was, actually, correctly reported. The assertion stated he plans to file a grievance with the college. Anderson, too, seems to be planning to struggle his termination; he reportedly retained sports activities lawyer Tom Mars to symbolize him.
