{"id":620828,"date":"2025-08-14T10:21:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=620828"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T17:18:17","slug":"female-athletes-file-sex-discrimination-class-action-against-concordia-university-irvine-for-elimination-of-womens-teams-and-violating-title-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/female-athletes-file-sex-discrimination-class-action-against-concordia-university-irvine-for-elimination-of-womens-teams-and-violating-title-ix\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Athletes File Class Action Against Concordia University Irvine for Elimination of Women\u2019s Teams and Violating Title IX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Female Athletes File Sex Discrimination Class Action Against Concordia University Irvine for Elimination of Women\u2019s Teams and Violating Title IX<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Nine female athletes at Concordia University Irvine (CUI) filed a sex discrimination class action against the school late yesterday for discriminating against its female student-athletes and potential student-athletes in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthurbryantlaw.com\/s\/25-08-13-1-CUI-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The\u00a0lawsuit,<\/a> filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, charges CUI with violating Title IX by depriving women of equal opportunities to participate in intercollegiate athletics. The school just announced it was planning to eliminate the women\u2019s swimming &amp; diving and tennis teams, along with the men\u2019s teams, when it is already providing women with far fewer opportunities than the law requires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe are suing CUI because it refused to comply with Title IX, provide women with equal opportunities to participate in varsity sports, and preserve our teams unless we did,\u201d said Alexandra Grant, a sophomore on the women\u2019s swimming &amp; diving team. \u201cWe wish it wasn\u2019t necessary, but we are doing what all women faced with sex discrimination need to do: stand up and fight for our rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">CUI female athletes Mikayla Barre, Jessica Bear, Kiera Gutierrez, Bryn Johnson, Alexandra Leland, Ruby McCullough, Aliyah Treadwell, and Carissa Ward are also plaintiffs in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cCUI\u2019s decision to eliminate the women\u2019s swimming &amp; diving and tennis teams is a flagrant violation of Title IX,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthurbryantlaw.com\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arthur Bryant<\/a> of Arthur Bryant Law, P.C., in Oakland, CA, lead counsel for the women. \u201cAccording to the most recent publicly available information, women were 59% of CUI\u2019s undergraduates in 2024-25, but they were given only 51.2% of the opportunities to participate in varsity sports. CUI needs to add about 100 opportunities for women to reach gender equity. It should not be eliminating <em>any <\/em>women\u2019s teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbcboulder.com\/john-clune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Clune<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbcboulder.com\/ashlyn-hare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashlyn Hare<\/a> of Hutchinson, Black, and Cook in Boulder, CO; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kellergrover.com\/who-we-are\/eric-a-grover-partner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Grover<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kellergrover.com\/who-we-are\/eric-a-grover-partner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Spencer<\/a> of Keller Grover in San Francisco, CA; and <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsthornton.com\/our-team\/anne-andrews\/\">Anne Andrews<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsthornton.com\/our-team\/robert-siko\/\">Robert Siko<\/a> of Andrews &amp; Thornton in Newport Beach, CA, are co-counsel for the women athletes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On May 20, 2025, CUI announced it had decided to eliminate its women\u2019s and men\u2019s swimming &amp; diving and tennis teams for financial reasons. A few days later, it emailed all of the athletes on the other teams to \u201creassure\u201d them their \u201cprogram remains secure\u201d because CUI is \u201ccurrently in the midst of a major $17.5 million construction project that includes a new 19,000-square-foot facility featuring a state-of-the-art weight room, locker rooms, and modern training room space\u2026In addition, the University has invested over $7 million in upgrades to our baseball, softball, and soccer\/track\/lacrosse facilities \u2013 including the installation of lights on each of our outdoor fields.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">CUI did not send this email to the athletes on the women\u2019s (or men\u2019s) swimming &amp; diving or tennis teams. But other athletes did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On June 16, 2025, Bryant\u00a0emailed a letter to CUI President Michael A. Thomas, PhD, explaining that the elimination of the women\u2019s teams violated Title IX and requesting a meeting to discuss preserving the teams and ensuring CUI\u2019s Title IX compliance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As the letter noted, Title IX prohibits educational institutions receiving federal funds from eliminating women\u2019s teams for which interest, ability, and competition are available unless \u201cintercollegiate level participation opportunities for male and female students are provided in numbers substantially proportionate to their respective enrollments.\u201d CUI fails that test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">According to the most recent Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA) data that CUI submitted and verified to the U.S. Department of Education as accurate, CUI had a total undergraduate population of 1,413 in 2023-24, including 833 women and 580 men. So, undergraduate enrollment was 58.95% women. (The 2024-25 EADA data is not yet publicly available.) The school\u2019s intercollegiate athletic teams had 625 athletes: 328 women and 297 men. They were only 52.48% women\u2014creating a gap of 6.47% between the women\u2019s undergraduate enrollment rate and their intercollegiate athletic participation rate. CUI needed to <em>add <\/em>women\u2019s opportunities to comply with Title IX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But CUI just announced that it is going to <em>eliminate<\/em> two women\u2019s teams that included 38 women (along with two men\u2019s teams that include 33 men) in 2023-24. As a result, the school\u2019s athletic participation rate for women will <em>decrease<\/em> when it needs to <em>increase<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Based on the most recent publicly available numbers, if the women\u2019s teams are cut, CUI will need to add 112 participation opportunities for women to achieve gender equity. This is, of course, far more opportunities to participate in varsity athletics than the women\u2019s swimming &amp; diving and tennis teams provide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After CUI received Bryant\u2019s June 16 letter, the lawyers for the school and the women met numerous times over a month. But, on July 17, the school refused to agree to continue the women\u2019s teams and come into compliance with Title IX. So, the women filed suit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthurbryantlaw.com\/s\/25-08-13-1-CUI-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the class action<\/a>, the women filed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthurbryantlaw.com\/s\/Grant-et-al-v-CUI-Ex-Parte-Application-re-TRO.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">application for a temporary restraining order<\/a> preserving the women\u2019s teams while the case proceeds. 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