In the coming weeks, newly hired Missouri athletics director Jim Sterk will testify in the wrongful termination lawsuit filed by his former women’s basketball coach at San Diego State.
Beth Burns, fired by Sterk in April 2013, was the first witness Tuesday in her suit against SDSU, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Attorneys for the California State University were expected to cross-examine the Aztecs’ former head coach on Wednesday and Thursday. Burns, now the associate head coach at Southern California, filed the lawsuit two years ago.
SDSU fired Burns three years ago, shortly after her Aztecs won a team-record 27 games in her 16th season on the bench.