Emails: Florida AD Stricklin Had Acknowledged Toxic WBB Environment

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The mother of former University of Florida women's basketball player Corey Staples sent five emails to athletic director Scott Stricklin and executive associate athletics director Lynda Tealer between January and March 2019 about the toxic culture within coach Cam Newbauer's program, calling into question Stricklin's claim that such reports had stopped once measures to rectify concerns were put in place.

In late September, Zachery Huber of The Independent Florida Alligator detailed player accounts of what it was like to play under Newbauer, who was the Gators' coach from 2017 to 2021 and allegedly prone to verbal abuse, making racist comments and throwing basketballs at players as punishment for poor effort.

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