The mother of a Florida women’s basketball player repeatedly emailed Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin in 2019 to inform him of women’s basketball head coach Cam Newbauer’s abusive treatment of players in the program, according to a report from Zachary Huber of The Independent Florida Alligator, with Stricklin acknowledging the emails and vowing to “assess where we can improve.”
But Newbauer would remain Florida’s head coach until his July 2021 resignation, receiving a contract extension earlier in the year — and while Stricklin addressed concerns that he failed to properly act on Newbauer by saying in September that if he had known the depths of his alleged abuse, he would not have extended his contract, his response to a second email from B.