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Eight female university soccer athletes and athletics have presented an appeal that challenges the v. NCAA antitrust settlement.
The United States District Judge, Claudia Wilken, approved the agreement last week, clearing the way for the direct payments of universities to athletes.
The eight women argue that female athletes will not receive their fair part of $ 2.7 billion in the subsequent payment for athletes forbidden for earning money with their name, image and likeness (null).
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Distribute Kacie de Vanderbilt; Lexi Drumm, Emma Appleman, Emmie Wannemacher, Riley Haas, Savannah Baron and Elizabeth Arnold of Charleston College; and Kate Johnson de Virginia lead the appeal. All presented previously objections to the proposed agreement.
Ashlyn Hare, one of the lawyers representing athletes, said in a statement that the agreement violates title IX, the federal law that prohibits sexual discrimination in education.
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“We support an agreement of the case, but not an inaccurate 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 money as it was proposed would be a massive mistake that would cause irreparable damage to women’s sports.”
The settlement of the House of Representatives financially benefits the soccer and basketball stars in the largest schools, which will probably receive a large part of the $ 20.5 million per year that universities can share with athletes during the next year. Some athletes in other sports that do not earn money for their schools could lose their partial scholarships or see their trimmed list points.
“This is a soccer and basketball damage without real benefit for female athletes,” Hare said. “Congress has expressly rejected efforts to exempt sports that generate income such as football and basketball of the antidiscrimination mandate of title IX. The NCAA agreed with us. Our argument in appeal is the same argument as the conferences and the NCAA did before resolving the case.”
The appeal, presented by the law firm Hutchinson Black and Cook of Boulder, Colorado, was first informed by the main office. It will be heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the ninth circuit.
