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In early April, shortly after his team celebrated a postseason championship, a George Washington men’s basketball player visited a campus Title IX coordinator to log complaints about Coach Mike Lonergan. Lonergan, the player believed, had created an offensive, uncomfortable environment, evidenced in his mind — and in the minds of many of his teammates — by the spate of transfers during the coach’s five-year tenure.
When the player shared the complaints, which included Lonergan making repeated graphic remarks about the school’s athletic director, Title IX coordinator Rory Muhammad’s response surprised him. The player was told, he later recalled, that the school had looked into Lonergan’s behavior previously and that the issue had been “handled.”
“I understand you met with Coach about similar issues before,” the player wrote to Muhammad on April 16 in a follow-up email, a copy of which The Post obtained. “But this concerns me and my teammates because it seems as if nothing was taken seriously. This worries me because if I (and others) choose to leave the University, word of Coach Lonergan’s verbal and emotional abuse, as well as player mistreatment would eventually be known among the greater community.”
In early April, shortly after his team celebrated a postseason championship, a George Washington men’s basketball player visited a campus Title IX coordinator to log complaints about Coach Mike Lonergan. Lonergan, the player believed, had created an offensive, uncomfortable environment, evidenced in his mind — and in the minds of many of his teammates — by the spate of transfers during the coach’s five-year tenure.
When the player shared the complaints, which included Lonergan making repeated graphic remarks about the school’s athletic director, Title IX coordinator Rory Muhammad’s response surprised him. The player was told, he later recalled, that the school had looked into Lonergan’s behavior previously and that the issue had been “handled.”
“I understand you met with Coach about similar issues before,” the player wrote to Muhammad on April 16 in a follow-up email, a copy of which The Post obtained. “But this concerns me and my teammates because it seems as if nothing was taken seriously. This worries me because if I (and others) choose to leave the University, word of Coach Lonergan’s verbal and emotional abuse, as well as player mistreatment would eventually be known among the greater community.”
