BYU officials said they were still investigating the incident and the fan accused of wrongdoing was banned indefinitely.
was put under a cloud of controversy over the weekend when Duke player Rachel Richardson said she was subjected to racial slurs during at a game against Brigham Young University in Utah.react quickly enough to address the situation. BYU said the fan was not a student but was sitting in the student section and banned the fan from all athletic venues on campus.
BYU associate athletic director Jon McBride added that several athletics employees have been combing through all the footage the team has access to and have not found evidence of racial slurs being shouted. A police report obtained by the Salt Lake Tribute indicated someone left a threatening voicemail for a BYU coach on Sunday. The report said the fan who was banned from the BYU venues approached a Duke player after the game Friday and made the player feel "uncomfortable."
BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe asked students to come forward with any information that have regarding the incident. "In the fourth set, we went back to that side, and it was almost as if the atmosphere of the student section had changed. Even my Black teammates who were on the bench, who don’t play, they were being called out, pointed at, and it was really confusing as to why. That’s when the racial slurs and heckling just grew more and more intense," Richardson said Tuesday.
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