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I Hope This Doesn’t Give Womens Basketball A Black Eye

February 12th, 2009 at 10:31 am by Preston Taylor Holmes

I live in the Mecca of Womens Basketball. Home of the Lady Vols, Pat Summitt and the Womens Basketball Hall of Fame. The only thing we lack is a WNBA franchise – and since I’ve got about $3.50 in quarters in my car’s ashtray, I just might buy one and bring it to Knoxville, but I digress.

I would hate for the reputation of this glorious sport (passionately followed primarily by Indigo Girls fans and the elderly) to be sullied by this tale of intolerance. Central Michigan college basketball player Brooke Heike was “wrongly benched” and had her scholarship revoked allegedly due to her being a breeder. Which, we have to admit, makes her ripe for discrimination in this dog-eat-dog sport.

A former star basketball player is now suing Central Michigan University, claiming the school’s basketball coach benched her and revoked her scholarship because she wore too much make-up and was not a lesbian.

Brooke Heike has filed a federal lawsuit against the college and its women’s basketball coach, Sue Guevara, alleging discrimination by Guevara caused her emotional distress, physical injury and eventual loss of her athletic scholarship.

According to the Detroit News, Heike claims, “Throughout the 2007-08 season, defendant Guevara continued to subject plaintiff to unwelcome harassment and discrimination because of plaintiff’s heterosexual preference and refusal to abandon her heterosexual preference and adopt a homosexual preference.”

It didn’t help the situation that Brooke is fairly attractive, which also puts her in the sport’s minority.

The lawsuit claims that while Guevara was head coach at U-M, certain players who left the team cited Guevara’s invasion of their personal lives, “such as being upset because they wore make-up or tight clothing or otherwise acted in a feminine way.”

“CMU is familiar with the allegations, which are being made without merit,” university spokesman Steve Smith told the Detroit News. “CMU will vigorously defend its position in court.”

According to the Associated Press, Coach Guevara told an appeals committee last June, “I didn’t feel that she (Heike) did anything to improve herself after being told over and over what she needed to do.”

As far as what she “needed to do,” we’ll leave that up to the imagination.

Is it worth a lawsuit? Probably not, but I hope Coach Sue “Che” Guevara has learned a lesson here and will keep her fingers out of her players’ private business going forward.


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3 Responses to “I Hope This Doesn’t Give Womens Basketball A Black Eye”

  1. 11B40 Says:
    February 12th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    Greetings:

    Women play basketball? Is that what they mean by “low and slow”?

    I thought I was just having flashbacks to the ’50s.

  2. Scott Says:
    February 12th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    Dude, you said ‘private’ business heh heh…

  3. Brian Says:
    February 12th, 2009 at 10:38 pm

    I refuse to believe that Ms. Heike had her scholarship revoked based on lack of ability. She clearly understands how to take it to the hole.