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Ex-USF Baseball Players sue coaches, schools, NCAA
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Ex-USF Baseball Players sue coaches, schools, NCAA

Three former University of San Francisco baseball players filed Friday a class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Nino Giarratano, longtime head coach, and Troy Nakamura, former associate head coach, for creating an intolerant sexualized environment in the program.

The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco, California. It also named USF, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, as defendants. They claim that the school knew about the inappropriate conduct of coaches and that the NCAA failed to enforce any rules against sexual harassment and retaliation.

According to the 113 page lawsuit, the coaches’ behavior caused several players to leave USF and join the NCAAs transfer portal. One former Dons player wrote on social media that his thoughts were of suicide.

USF announced January 13 that Nakamura was no longer associated with the program following a human resource investigation into incidents where the language, behavior, and/or actions of the coaches were inappropriate. Giarratano, who was in his 24th year at the school, was officially reprimanded, but he retained his job.

John Doe 1, John Doe 2 & John Doe 3 were all named as plaintiffs in this lawsuit. They spoke to The Chronicle on condition of anonymity. They described an atmosphere where Nakamura used sexually explicit language in front of the team, flipped one player into handstands and pretended to eat spaghetti from his crotch during a pre-practice skit. Once, he crawled onto the field naked, his penis visible.

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