Thursday, July 22, 2010

Lock Haven AD Taylor lightning rod for controversy, litigation - USATODAY.com

Lock Haven AD Taylor lightning rod for controversy, litigation - USATODAY.com: ...Lock Haven is on the litigious front lines of a bitter battle of the sexes that turns upside-down the common Title IX argument that women in college athletics are not treated as well as men.

Sharon Taylor is the longtime athletics director at the small (enrollment: 5,329) state school in north-central Pennsylvania. Her critics say she favors women over men and that's why women's teams fare better than men's at the Division II school.

'Oh, it's worse than that,' says Patrick Guerriero, a former assistant athletics director. 'Sharon hates men.'

Taylor calls that unfair, untrue and emblematic of the sort of searing personal attacks that led her to file a defamation suit against men from a community group that supports LHU's Division I wrestling team.