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Eight Women’s College Football, Volleyball and Freedom Athletes have submitted an appeal that challenges House v. NCAA Antitrust Settlement.
US district judge Claudia Wilken approved the settlement last week and cleared the way for direct payments from universities to athletes.
The eight women claim that female athletes do not receive their reasonable share of $ 2.7 billion in repayment for athletes prevented from making money from their name, image and equality (zero).
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Kacie Breeding of Vanderbilt; Lexi Drumm, Emma Applan, Emmie Wannemacher, Riley Haas, Savannah Baron and Elizabeth Arnold of the College of Charleston; And Kate Johnson from Virginia leads the appeal. They filed all previous objections to the proposed solution.
Ashlyn Hare, one of the lawyers representing the athletes, said in a statement that the settlement violates the title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex -based discrimination in education.
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“We support a solution of the case, but not an inaccurate one who is in violation of federal law. The calculation of previous injuries is based on a mistake that ignores title IX and deprives female athletes $ 1.1 billion,” Hare said. “To pay out the money as suggested would be a massive error that would cause irreparable damage to women’s sports.”
The house’s settlement figures to financially benefit for football and basketball stars at the largest schools, which are likely to receive a large part of the $ 20.5 million a year that Colleges is allowed to share with athletes in the next year. Some athletes in other sports that do not make money for their schools may lose their partial scholarships or watch their program list cut back.
“This is a settlement of football and basketball injuries without any real benefit to female athletes,” Hare said. “Congress has explicitly rejected the efforts to exempt revenue -generating sports such as football and basketball from Title IX’s Anti -Criminal Criminal Mandate.
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 American appeal for the ninth circuit.
