", Nemeth has appealed the finding of non-responsibility on numerous procedural grounds, alleging that investigators interviewed only four witnesses, three of whom were acknowledged in the investigators' report to be "very loyal to the Respondent's family. The news was reported by South Alabama Sports via Twitter. Harsin's tenure at Auburn ends with a 9-12 record. Conference regular season and conference tournament champion The two will look to build off of a 28-17 season last year for the Tigers. Corey Myers, Auburn's associate head coach and Clint Myers' youngest son, resigned prior to the Georgia trip. Auburn players have said their former head coach's actions created a similar culture there, one that enabled and shielded Corey while also intimidating players who complained about his alleged inappropriate behavior. According to Nemeth's complaint, coach Clint Myers "knowingly let his son Corey Myers have relations and pursue relations with multiple members of the team. Alexa Nemeth, a former Auburn softball player, alleges abuse by coaching staff and Auburn University negligence. We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here. Follow all your favorite Alabama teams at Auburn Wire and Roll Tide Wire! It will be interesting to see how Haecker does in his new role as head coach for a different group of Tigers. While Hill is not a defendant in the case, his actions as an administrator are mentioned in thefederal discrimination lawsuit of former Auburn assistant track coach Adrian Ghioroaie, who is seeking compensatory damages from Auburn for discrimination and retaliation and compensatory and punitive damages from assistant track coach Henry Rolle and head track coach Ralph Spry. [4], Dean is married to his wife Liz, and they have two adult children. In each of the past two seasons, three coaches were fired in September.. McNemar, Abbey Lisenby, Carlee What his rules would be moving forward," she said. Swinson. Now, DePaul is being sued for allegedly covering up a toxic culture of abuse within the schools softball program. Messages left with Clint Myers were not immediately returned Friday, and Corey Myers declined to comment when reached by Outside the Lines. Bass said she was not invited back to the program after the conclusion of the 2016 season and is now playing second base at Louisville. "He thought Corey was the best strength coach. Lenti was the head coach . Follow all your favorite Alabama teams at Auburn Wire and Roll Tide Wire! Karkoska, Taylor Dean, Eugene Laura Schulz. Data analyst and reporter for ESPN's Enterprise and Investigative Unit. Williams was hired as Auburn's wide receivers coach on Jan. 16, joining the program after spending the last six seasons in the same role at Troy. Along with that role, he was also a varsity assistant football and baseball coach at Lee-Scott Academy in Auburn, Alabama. Clint Myers won two national championships at Arizona State and took Auburn to the Women's College World Series finals against Oklahoma in 2016. "After all the stuff that happened in the spring, I felt like an idiot for even opening my mouth. View Full Bio. 08, 2013, 10:36 p.m. Auburn softball coach Tina Deese was fired Wednesday after 17 years. "But I was glad to be found non-responsible.". 247Sports' Nathan King reported on Monday that Auburn is firing additional staff members along with head coach Bryan Harsin.Offensive coordinator Eric Kiesau and tight ends coach Brad Bedell are the biggest names, as the two were among Harsin's Boise State-related hires, but the team has also laid off some additional support staffers. "You are banned from campus property and may not attend any university events. 2015 Softball Roster Go To Coaching Staff Print Roster Layout: Choose A Season: The 2015 Auburn Softball Team: Top Row (left to right): Madi Gipson, Anna Gibbs, Jade Rhodes, Haley Fagan,. On May 31, a former player, Alexa Nameth, filed a Title IX complaint with the university alleging that "Coach Clint Myers knowingly let his son Corey Myers have relations and pursue relations with multiple members of the team." Two days before the sudden retirement of Auburn softball coach Clint Myers last summer, his son, former associate head coach Corey Myers, was banned from the Auburn campus in a strongly worded letter from the university's Title IX office. "The process has taken a really long time. He hit a combined .258 batting average with an impressive on-base percentage of .399. [2], On September 14, 2017, Mickey Dean was announced as the new head coach of the Auburn Softball program,[3] replacing Clint Myers who resigned in August 2017, amid accusations against him and his assistants. Shirey, TJ Senior women's administrator forathletics Meredith Jenkins allegedly told players they were risking arrest for having those pictures and ordered they be deleted. This could be a big issue for a program that has had problems in the past with coaches. 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That September resignation lasted only two weeks, Fagan said, after Clint Myers and another Auburn coach asked select members of the team to "go fight for Corey" with the athletic department. 6 Auburn athletics administrators fired - al.com After Auburn hired him, Clint Myers thanked the university for the "opportunity to coach with my family.". ", The letter indicated that Corey Myers had been under investigation since fall 2016, but at that time, Auburn Title IX staff members "found insufficient evidence to conclude the policy was violated.". (0:41). It was an act that set the stage for all that was to follow: an emotionally charged postgame confrontation between Fagan and Florida coach Tim Walton, who unwittingly stepped into the Auburn storm; the three-hour March 30 "quarantine" described in Greenberg's letter; the resignation of Corey Myers; and, perhaps most remarkably, the refusal of several members of the team, including Fagan and 2016 All-American Kasey Cooper, to board the bus to Athens in the company of the player who allegedly exchanged text messages with Corey Myers. Five players told ESPN that, at that meeting, Auburn executive associate athletic director Meredith Jenkins told the players they were risking arrest for taking the text messages from their teammate's phone and ordered them to delete the messages. Harsin, 45, came to Auburn on a six-year, $31.5 million deal after seven seasons as head coach at Boise State. An Alabama native, Williams was a standout wide . I'm looking forward to not having to deal with Auburn's Title IX office again. The letter also instructed Clint Myers to refrain from "participating in any manner" with Corey's CM Baseball & Softball Academy, including allowing usage of university facilities. Division regular season and conference tournament champion "No one on the outside has a clue to what we went through," said Whitney Jordan, who left after the 2017 season with a year of eligibility left to take a teaching internship. He's in his fourth season at his alma mater, where he was an All-America selection at running back and set team records for carries (741) and rushing touchdowns (45). "Who was the advocate for the student athletes? [1] Early life and education Dean graduated from Elon University in 1987. "I remember when I first went to Coach [Clint Myers] and [Auburn assistant] Scott Woodard they literally said, 'Define inappropriate relationships. Lentis sister Jean Lenti Ponsetto is the schools athletic director and Conviser says this is the reason allegations were disregarded and covered up. The two will look to build off of a 28-17 season last year for the Tigers. Last fall, Auburn conducted an internal investigation after players filed anonymous ethics complaints with the athletic department regarding Corey's behavior. McCrary, Maia All Top Performers. No. Current Auburn softball assistant coach Eugene Lenti is now being accused of physical and verbal abuse toward former coaches and players in a lawsuit filed against DePaul University. AUBURN A former Auburn softball player has sued the university, school leaders and former softball coaches, alleging sexual discrimination and harassment. Kay Ivey a month before the abrupt retirement Wednesday of head coach Clint Myers. Everybody protected Coach. At one point, Corey Myers allowed one of the players to temporarily live with his family at their house, an arrangement that a former ASU administrator described as "not a good practice." Corey Myers was hired as an assistant coach in 2013 and promoted to associate head coach in 2016. For more news and notes on Auburn athletics. Eight-figure buyouts, the transfer portal and midseason CFB coach firings, Auburn hires Mississippi St.'s Cohen as next AD. '", Fagan said she had been troubled by Corey Myers' behavior since her first year on the team, when, after a ground ball fielding drill, "he smacked me on the butt. All rights reserved (About Us). Reach Tom Junod at Thomas.C.Junod@espn.com. I looked at him and he said, 'What?' Gus Malzahn has been fired as the . Cooper, Millie "I just look forward to getting this over with," Nemeth said. She filed the Title IX complaint two days later. Conference regular season champion Over the past five months, an ESPN reporter has spent several days with the Auburn team and coaching staff and conducted dozens of interviews. Data analyst and reporter for ESPN's Enterprise and Investigative Unit. On July 20, Greenberg, a lawyer with experience in sports law and Title IX complaints, sent the letter on behalf of Nemeth to Ivey, Auburn president Steven Leath and Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs. Division regular season champion Auburn clinches series at No. 3 South Carolina Corey stepped away from the program for a couple of weeks. View Full Bio, Aspyn Former Auburn softball player Alexa Nemeth files lawsuit against I am certain that this group of players will do great things. Auburn was coming off a 6-7 season when Harsin's status was thrown into limbo this February after the university launched an investigation into his handling of the program. It's unclear how much Auburn officials knew about the alleged issues at Arizona State before hiring Clint Myers in 2013. He retired Wednesday, saying in a university-issued statement that "after 40 years of coaching and reflecting on the importance of spending quality time with my wife, my children, and my grandchildren, I have decided to retire from a sport that I love dearly and which has brought so much joy to me.". Former Auburn head softball coach Clint Myers, who left the program in August amid allegations his son and assistant coach Corey Myers engaged in inappropriate behavior with players, was reprimanded in his previous job as head coach at Arizona State University for issues involving Corey as well, records released Friday to ESPN's Outside the Lines show.