Basketball player claims she was cut from the team for speaking up against alleged racism

Former women’s basketball team members at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory are calling for the termination of the school’s president and women’s basketball coaching staff after they claim the school targeted them for their support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Several students at Lenoir-Rhyne University reached out to WCNC Charlotte’s Billie Jean Shaw about the issue after sophomore Laney Fox posted the allegations on social media.

“I want President Whitt and Coach Smith all to be fired or resign,” Laney Fox said.

Fox said she and six other players were cut from the team in March — six months after reporting alleged racist remarks made by other teammates to the coaching staff.

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