U. of Texas Settles with Former Track Coach for $600K

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Bev Kearney, the highly successful University of Texas women's track coach who was forced out in 2013 over a personal relationship, will receive $600,000 to settle her race and gender discrimination lawsuit against the school, according to records obtained by the Austin American-Statesman.

Kearney, who is black, argued that her termination — resulting from the revelation that the coach had had an inappropriate long-term relationship with one of her student-athletes a decade earlier — represented harsher punishment than that received by Major Applewhite, a white former assistant football coach who was ordered to undergo counseling after a brief consensual relationship with a student trainer during a bowl game trip following the 2008 season.

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