3 former Kean student-athletes sue NCAA after losing scholarships

By Jeff Goldman/The Star-Ledger

UNION — Three former Kean University female student-athletes who claim they were forced to give up their scholarships have filed a class action suit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association, according to a report on the New Jersey Law Journal’s website.

The student-athletes said in the suit they lost their scholarships after the NCAA placed the school on probation in 2012 for its failure to exert control over the athletic department.

The three plaintiffs and eight other students were then notified by the university it would no longer honor their Dr. James E. Dorsey Scholarship unless the athletes gave up varsity sports, the suit alleges.

In Pedersen v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, filed Monday in federal court in Newark, the women asserted the then-athletic director knew Kean was handing out more Dorsey scholarships to athletes than the NCAA permitted.

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