AUSTIN — University of Texas has agreed to pay a former track coach $600,000 to settle a race and discrimination lawsuit she filed in 2014, according to KVUE's media partners at the Austin American-Statesman.
Bev Kearney, UT's former women's track coach, was forced out in 2013 when the school learned about a romantic relationship she had with one of her athletes a decade earlier. Kearney argued that as a black woman, she was held to a tougher standard than a white male coach or other school officials who she alleges were in relationships with subordinates.
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