What’s News, Breaking: Tuesday, June 6, 2023
LIU WOMEN’S SOFTBALL TEAM WINS TEMP VICTORY OVER LIU IN COURT
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — The Long Island University women’s softball team scored a temporary victory in court on June 1 against the university, after LIU agreed to keep their sports program in Brooklyn for two more years. Some team members had filed a federal Title 9 lawsuit accusing LIU of making the fraudulent misrepresentation that the softball program would remain in Brooklyn after a new softball complex was completed, according to NBC News.
The lawsuit stated that the champion softball team had been treated less favorably than male teams, with inferior “practice and competition facilities.” For the past four years, female softball team members have had to travel to Long Island to play home games, a two- to three-hour trip which prevented the girls from studying or going to classes. They practiced on an unfinished field in Brooklyn.
This year the Sharks clinched their first trip to the NCAA Division I tournament since 2016.