A Salt Lake woman and her daughter are suing an Idaho women’s college basketball team for allegedly mocking them as they changed in a Westminster University locker room last year.
The mother and daughter had undressed in the Salt Lake City school’s women’s locker room after swimming laps on Dec. 20, when the Northwest Nazarene University basketball team and a male student manager walked in on them, according to the lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court.
The mother was partially dressed while her daughter was completely nude when the group of about 12 people entered the locker room unannounced, the lawsuit states. The group “looked and laughed at them in a way that was humiliating and violative,” the suit alleges.
The lawsuit names Northwest Nazarene University, a private school in Nampa, Idaho, its head women’s basketball coach, multiple team members, and the student manager among the defendants.
The group’s “offensive, outrageous and intolerable conduct” caused the two women “ongoing, severe and extreme physical and emotional distress,” according to the lawsuit. The women are seeking more than $75,000 in damages.
Northwest Nazarene officials did not respond to a request for comment this week.