April 11, 2003

Athlete Says Sacred Heart Took Away Her Scholarship Because She Was Pregnant

By VYACHESLAV KANDYBA

A former women's basketball player at Sacred Heart University has sued the Connecticut institution, charging that she was dismissed from the team and had her athletics scholarship rescinded because she became pregnant.

Tara Brady, 21, was a starting center for Sacred Heart's Division I women's basketball team as a sophomore in 2001. She contends in her lawsuit that in June of that year, she discovered that she was pregnant and notified her coach, Edward Swanson. A few days later, he

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