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Female athletes contest new NCAA ruling, claiming violations of federal anti-discrimination law
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Female athletes contest new NCAA ruling, claiming violations of federal anti-discrimination law

Jimmie Dempsey
Last updated: June 12, 2025 1:11 am
Jimmie Dempsey Published June 12, 2025
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Eight women’s college soccer, volleyball and track and field athletes have filed an appeal challenging the House v. NCAA antitrust settlement.

U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken approved the settlement last week, clearing the way for direct payments from universities to athletes.

The eight women argue female athletes won’t receive their fair share of $2.7 billion in back pay for athletes barred from making money off their name, image and likeness (NIL). 

Kacie Breeding of Vanderbilt; Lexi Drumm, Emma Appleman, Emmie Wannemacher, Riley Haas, Savannah Baron and Elizabeth Arnold of the College of Charleston; and Kate Johnson of Virginia lead the appeal. They all previously filed objections to the proposed settlement.

Ashlyn Hare, one of the attorneys representing the athletes, said in a statement the settlement violates Title IX, the federal law that bans sex-based discrimination in education.

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“We support a settlement of the case, but not an inaccurate one that violates federal law. The calculation of past damages is based on an error that ignores Title IX and deprives female athletes of $1.1 billion,” Hare said. “Paying out the money as proposed would be a massive error that would cause irreparable harm to women’s sports.”

The House settlement figures to financially benefit football and basketball stars at the biggest schools, who are likely to receive a big chunk of the $20.5 million per year that colleges are permitted to share with athletes over the next year. Some athletes in other sports that don’t make money for their schools could lose their partial scholarships or see their roster spots cut.

“This is a football and basketball damages settlement with no real benefit to female athletes,” Hare said. “Congress has expressly rejected efforts to exempt revenue-generating sports like football and basketball from Title IX’s antidiscrimination mandate. The NCAA agreed with us. Our argument on appeal is the exact same argument the conferences and NCAA made prior to settling the case.”

The appeal, filed by the law firm Hutchinson Black and Cook of Boulder, Colorado, was first reported by Front Office Sports. It will be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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