Date uploaded: 2023-03-27 14:31:59
The letters from former Iowa State soccer players about former coach Tony Minatta were rounded up by the family of Lauren Pirotte, a former player under Minatta at his current job at Stephen F. Austin State.
She and two other former players at SFA allege emotional abuse and mistreatment during his first year there in 2020.
The Pirotte family even hired an attorney, Martin Greenberg, who submitted the letters to SFA and said the school didn’t do its due diligence on him before hiring him. He demanded Minatta be fired.
In response, SFA said it had tapped “neutral” investigators to examine the situation. They found no wrongdoing by Minatta.
“As the Pirottes have been told on numerous occasions, the university considers this matter closed,” the school said in a letter to Greenberg in September.
The university echoed this statement when contacted by USA TODAY Sports and declined to make Minatta or athletic director Ryan Ivey available for comment.
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