Texas pays $600,000 to settle Kearney discrimination lawsuit
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Documents show the University of Texas agreed to pay $600,000 to settle former women's track coach Bev Kearney's race and gender discrimination lawsuit.
Kearney and the school agreed to settle her nearly five-year-old lawsuit in June, but terms weren't released until Monday. The financial total was released under public records requests from The Associated Press and other media outlets. Kearney will receive about $277,450 with the rest going to her attorneys.
Kearney was forced out of her job in 2013 after the school learned she had a relationship with an athlete a decade earlier. Kearney, who is black, had claimed she was treated differently than former Texas assistant football Major Applewhite, who was allowed to keep his job and was later promoted after the school learned he had a relationship with a student trainer on a bowl trip. Applewhite is now the head coach at Houston.