Former Quinnipiac University women’s lacrosse head coach Tanya “TK” Kotowicz is suing the university “for alleged sex discrimination against her in ways that included providing her team inadequate athletic trainer coverage and firing her in retaliation for her complaints about the trainer issue,” according to The Stamford Advocate. 

The university terminated Kotowicz in January 2024 after allegedly playing an injured athlete. 

However, The Chronicle’s deep dive into the situation revealed that the internal documents — and the athlete’s dad — said otherwise. 

The Stamford Advocate reported Wednesday morning that “the suit seeks monetary compensation for economic damages such as lost wages and benefits and for non-economic damages such as emotional distress as well as “reinstatement or future economic damages,” punitive damages, interest and attorney’s fees and costs.” 

Kotowicz filed the complaint in state Superior Court in New Haven on Aug. 21, according to The Stamford Advocate. 

In the complaint, she alleges that Quinnipiac repeatedly “failed to provide athletic trainers to the women’s lacrosse team in the fall of 2023 — for practices and a one-day tournament — while providing a trainer to the men’s lacrosse team in comparable circumstances.”

Quinnipiac Athletics announced on Jan. 3 2024 that Kotowicz “is leaving the program.” 

However, ten minutes after the post, Quinnipiac’s rugby head coach Becky Carlson called the university’s official statement “outrageous and not the whole story,” 

“The coach didn’t leave the program,” Carlson wrote in her repost. “The truth will come out.” 

“The university does not comment on pending legal matters,” Associate Vice President of Public Relations John Morgan wrote in a statement to The Chronicle.

This is a developing story and will be updated once more information becomes available.