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The University of Maryland at Baltimore County has agreed to pay up to $4.14 million to student-athletes who were subjected to sexual abuse and discrimination by a coach, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-secures-414-million-settlement-student-athletes-remedy-title-ix" target=_blank>according to the Justice Department</a>.

A Justice Department investigation found that university officials knew that Chad Cradock, who was then head coach of the university’s Division I swimming and diving team, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/03/20/umbc-swim-coach-doj/" target=_blank>had been accused of</a> subjecting members of his team to unwanted sexual touching and harassment between 2015 and 2020 but did not take action to protect students.

Cradock was placed on leave in October 2020 and died in 2021.

A department report released last month found that Cradock, who had competed on the team as a student and later served as head coach for nearly 20 years, avoided scrutiny for his behavior even as students described the swim team as a hypersexualized environment. The report alleged he followed some male athletes into bathroom stalls and fondled their genitals.

Female students on the swimming and diving team also endured a hostile environment based on their sex, according to the report, including dating violence and sexual harassment from male teammates that the coach required the women to report to him for “mediation” rather than to the appropriate university officials.

An attorney who had represented Cradock did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

“A school’s responsibility is to protect its students, not abusers who seek to exploit their positions of power,” Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said in a written statement Wednesday. “The young student-athletes at UMBC experienced a double betrayal: their coach’s prolonged abuse compounded by their university’s utter failure to acknowledge, respond to or remedy this egregious conduct. UMBC has now taken full responsibility for its failures and has expressed its commitment to addressing them and rebuilding the trust of its community.”

The<a href="https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-04/umbc-doj_settlement_agreement.pdf" target=_blank> settlement</a> requires UMBC to make numerous changes, including taking steps to improve its processes for responding to complaints of sex discrimination and increasing staffing related to Title IX compliance, including a permanent coordinator. The agreement will be in effect through the end of the 2028-2029 academic year.

Valerie Sheares Ashby, UMBC’s president since 2022, said in a <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/announcements/posts/140540" target=_blank>message to the campus community</a> on Wednesday that many of the changes were already underway.

“We cannot take away the suffering and trauma that many of our students endured in those years, nor can we undo the actions or inactions of the past,” she wrote. “We can control how we respond to that painful past and how we ensure that this never happens again. Our resolve and resilience are our strengths, and my confidence in the UMBC community has never been greater.”

Razzan Nakhlawi contributed to this report.

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UMBC agrees to $4.14M settlement in abuse case involving former coach

The Justice Department will monitor the University of Maryland at Baltimore County for compliance with federal law protecting students from sex discrimination