BACK TO NACUANOTEFN1. One authority
states that 112 athletes were charged with sexual assault or domestic violence in 1995 and
1996, and that most of their accusers were female college students. Brian L. Porto, A New Season: Using
Title IX to Reform College Sports. Praeger
Publishers, 2003 at 124-5. For more recent
accounts of alleged sexual assaults by college athletes, see,, Ken Armstrong and Nick
Perry, “Convicted of Assault and Accused of Rape, Star Player Received a Raft of
Second Chances,” Seattle Times, January 31,
2008, available at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004147460_rbstevens270.html
(last visited 10/31/08) (football player at the University of Washington with prior
criminal record for assault convicted of raping fellow student). See also “DeAnza College Suspends 8 Athletes
in Sexual Assault Case,” NBC11.com, available at http://www.nbc11.com/news/11192221/detail.html
(last visited 3/18/08) (baseball team members accused of attempted sexual assault of high
school girl). For additional examples of
alleged sexual misconduct by college athletes, see Jenni E. Spies, Comment: “Winning at All Costs: An Analysis of a University’s Potential
Liability for Sexual Assaults Committed by its Student Athletes,” 16 Marq.
Sports L. Rev. 429 (2006) and Kimberly M. Trebon, Note and Comment: “There is no ‘I’ in Team: The Commission of Group Sexual Assault by
Collegiate and Professional Athletes,” 4
DePaul J. Sports L. Contemp. Probs. 65 (2007).
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