Smith, the former women’s basketball head coach Bradford Zinn, a former assistant coach and Jered Ross, also a former assistant coach - are suing HCC its president, Deborah Fox its athletic director, Bryan Dorrel and a member of its board of trustees, Russell Karn. “The HCC administration acted in a concerted fashion to discriminate against Black student-athletes, and when challenged by coaches trying to do the right thing, reacted by smearing the reputations of those coaches, depriving them both of due process and future work possibilities,” William Odle, the lawyer representing the three plaintiff coaches, told KCUR. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas, last week, says that Highland Community College in northeast Kansas conducted a concerted campaign to discourage African Americans from attending the school, intimidated Black student-athletes into leaving and told its coaching staff to refrain from recruiting African Americans. An explosive lawsuit alleging a small Kansas community college sought to reduce the number of its African American student-athletes follows disclosures that the president of the school compared a Black football player to Hitler, whom she praised as “a great leader.”
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