Former D-II Coach Behind Impermissible Benefits, Cover-Up

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The former head tennis coach at Lewis University in Romeoville, Ill., provided impermissible benefits to three international student-athletes and violated unethical conduct rules when he instructed one of the student-athletes to conceal those benefits.

According to a decision released Tuesday by the NCAA Division II Committee on Infractions, the former head coach of both the Lewis men's and women's tennis failed to promote an atmosphere for compliance and violated head coach responsibility rules. Though not named in the NCAA release, AB Today has determined the former head coach to be Brett Bridel, who was employed by Lewis from 2007 to 2020. He was hired by Point University in West Point, Ga., to coach men's and women's tennis in August 2021, but the university's athletics directory currently doesn't list any tennis staff.

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