Coach Comes Out, Gets Ousted

The story of Lisa Howe, Belmont University's women's soccer coach who resigned last week after she told school officials that she and her same-sex partner were expecting a child, has become one of conflicting accounts.

Belmont administrators claim Howe - in her sixth year at the university, which she led to its first NCAA soccer tournament in 2008 - resigned on her own, without offering further explanation. But, according to The Tennessean, several members of the soccer team say their coach was pressured into tendering her resignation. Mike Organ reports that senior soccer player Erica Carter said Howe told her and her roommate, junior Ashley Hudak, that athletics department officials had given her the choice to resign or be terminated because she had told the team her partner was pregnant. Howe is quoted in Belmont's official press release saying, "I am at a point in my life where I am satisfied to move on."

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