IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) The University of Iowa is refusing to reinstate fired women's field hockey coach Tracey Griesbaum or to re-investigate what her supporters call a pattern of unfair treatment of female coaches.
Griesbaum's attorney, Tom Newkirk, asked President Sally Mason to re-examine the investigation that led to Griesbuam's termination after 14 years leading one of Iowa's most successful women's programs.
He said the university needed to ensure that ''no form of bias nor any double standard played a role,'' saying her firing was the result of allegations of mistreatment from dissatisfied players that would have been dismissed if she was a male coach.
In a letter responding to Newkirk last week for Mason, assistant attorney general George Carroll said the university wouldn't reinstate Griesbaum or investigate whether female coaches have faced discrimination.
