University of Minnesota responds to 3rd harassment report

“We take all reports of sexual harassment very seriously and we encourage anyone else who experienced such actions to come forward”, U President Eric Kaler said in a statement.

As reported by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the first complaint against Teague was lodged in 2012, when he was still athletic director at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. The records the paper was able to get their hands on don’t specify the exact reason for the complaint, but do say that the University settled it for $125,000.

Amelia Rayno, a writer at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, has written a first-person account of repeated harassment by Teague.

Regina Sullivan, a senior associate athletic director, also filed a complaint against Minnesota in March 2013 after she was fired in October 2012. Teague, she said, “expected a woman in my position to take a passive role and defer to men’s opinions” on issues pertaining to Title IX, the law that bans sex discrimination in any federally funded school.

The two university employees who previously spoke out on Teague’s misconduct had similar experiences with him.

University of Minnesota spokesman Evan Lapiska said the school has not received any complaint about Teague beyond the two and stressed that Sullivan’s claim was against the school, not its former athletic director.

Rayno wrote that Teague groped her at a bar and followed her into a cab before sending suggestive text messages to her in 2013. First, it would have put Rayno under a microscope just as much as Teague-let’s be honest, a younger, blonde beat reporter accusing an older A.D. of harassment would have put her under a microscope far more than Teague-so despite telling her human resources department about the situation in April, 2014 after another round of inappropriate texts, Rayno decided not to make her story the story until now. The university ought to launch an independent investigation into that matter.

Lapiska said he did not know if any complaints have been made against Teague since he resigned on Friday.

The College of Minnesota can also be being by the federal authorities for its compliance with Title IX, after an nameless grievance alleged that ladies’s athletics groups have been getting too little funding, and that the roster for them have been getting smaller.

In the interest of cultivating a source, Rayno had seen Teague on numerous occasions, mostly in group settings, including a few parties at his house.

From there, Teague’s behavior allegedly did not stop.

Schleuder told the Star Tribune she got no response from either Kaler or the regents.

Teague released a statement on Friday apologizing for his actions and that he will be “seeking help for my alcohol abuse, and re-evaluating my life and career”. Her teams with the U and later at Macalester won 702 matches.

If the answer is yes, Teague should never have been allowed to keep his job.

“I would fully expect that policies in the athletic department and universitywide will be examined”, he said.