Ex-Northwestern baseball staffers planning lawsuit against school, Jim Foster

Three former Northwestern baseball staffers are planning on submitting a lawsuit towards the varsity for retaliatory discharge, harassment, bullying and abuse by former baseball coach Jim Foster. 

Foster and different directors may also be named as defendants.

Former assistant coaches Dusty Napoleon and Jon Strauss and former director of baseball operations Chris Beacom allege that Foster had created such a poisonous environment that they didn’t need to journey with the workforce.

And after they introduced it to the eye of the athletic division, the lawsuit alleges that they have been retaliated towards. 

The go well with additionally alleges “fees of racism, sexism and egregious tortious conduct, together with unwarranted retaliation,” according to WGN.

The therapy was allegedly in retaliation for reporting NCAA violations by Foster to the college.

Foster was fired on July 13 after a college investigation discovered proof that he had “engaged in bullying and abusive habits,” “made an inappropriate remark concerning a feminine workers member and spoke negatively about his workers to different workers members.” 

“The prejudicial and biased angle of the previous head coach that additionally included the mismanagement of the gamers and workers in the end led to Foster’s firing, one thing that ought to have been finished months in the past,” mentioned Christopher J. Esbrook, legal professional for the Plaintiffs.  “Northwestern had a accountability to the gamers in addition to to its workers to offer a protected and safe working atmosphere.

“The Athletic Division, in addition to these overseeing that division, failed in each manner. These males tried to do the precise factor, and Northwestern let down your complete workforce and group in its negligent dealing with of the matter.”

His firing got here simply days after Northwestern fired head football coach Pat Fitzgerald following a hazing investigation. 

A press convention is scheduled for Monday to announce the submitting of the criticism. 

The college has confronted a number of lawsuits for the reason that hazing scandal with the soccer program turned headline information.