A 19 year old college volleyball player is taking legal action after she says she was pushed off her team over her social media photos.
Shalom, a student athlete at the University of Cincinnati, says her coaches repeatedly singled her out about her Instagram pictures and told her they were too sexy, according to Yahoo. She claims teammates posted similar photos, including bikini pictures, without being criticized.
Shalom says she was fully clothed in all of her photos and deleted some of them after the criticism. She alleges that in June 2017 a coach questioned her about her profile picture, and she says she removed it. She says she then received text messages telling her to remove more images, and she pushed back, saying she felt she was being body shamed.
She claims that about a week later she was told she had to leave the team because of different philosophies, a move that would affect her ability to renew her athletic scholarship. After she filed a complaint with the university, she says no proper investigation took place and she was not given a chance to appeal.
According to documents obtained by Courthouse News Service, the lawsuit alleges racial and sexual discrimination. It names her former coach, a senior associate athletic director, and the University of Cincinnati as defendants.
These are allegations in a lawsuit, and no court has ruled on them. A response from the university and the people named in the suit was not available at the time of this report.
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