San Diego State University female student-athletes sue school over inequitable financial aid

A group of female student-athletes filed a sex discrimination class action lawsuit Monday against San Diego State University that alleges the school has deprived female athletes of equal athletic financial aid in violation of Title IX.

The complaint filed in San Diego federal court alleges SDSU has not paid female varsity-student athletes equal financial aid in more than a decade and illegally denied female athletes more than $1.2 million in aid over the last two academic years.

The suit, which attorneys say is the first Title IX athletic financial aid damages case in the country, alleges that, per Title IX, schools must grant athletic financial aid in amounts proportional to male and female athletic participation rates.


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[Drewferran]

We’re not all rich kids. Some of us state kids actually need that money or are at state as a first generation student. The sports here take up so much of the athletes times, and my friend on the women’s tennis varsity team is paid around $300 a month and they’re not allowed to work, so they can practice more.