alleging Texas Tech and the school's athletics director, Kirby Hocutt, discriminated against the women's sports programs. The women's basketball program received considerably less money, resources and attention from Hocutt during Stollings' tenure from April 2018 to August 2020, according to the complaint.USA TODAY Sports filed an open-records request with the university June 30 for copies of records and documents related to all investigations of Petty between Jan.
Texas Tech officials had been made aware of allegations concerning Petty's treatment of athletes before. Petty received a letter of reprimand from Hocutt on Jan. 4, 2021, according to a copy of the letter USA TODAY Sports obtained from Texas Tech. The extensive review was conducted in December 2020 after the school received allegations from a player who had transferred to another school in 2019, according to the letter of reprimand.
Texas Tech self-imposed a reduction of seven hours of"countable hours of athletically related activities'', double the 3.5 countable hours that Petty triggered, according to a copy of an NCAA case summary obtained by USA TODAY Sports through a public records request. Players who spoke on the record about Petty's behavior are Alex Angyalosy, who played at Texas Tech in the fall of 2017 before transferring to Clemson; Sydney Jones, who played at Texas Tech from 2018 to 2019 before transferring to Rutgers; Katelyn Jackson, who played at Texas Tech from 2014 to 2018; and Kailey Evans, who played at Texas Tech from 2020 to 2022 and said she is transferring to the University of San Diego and plans to play tennis.
► Screamed so forcefully at another player after practice that the player later said it was the first time she felt like she was “going to be hit by a guy.’’ "We had already heard that Todd Petty was a tough coach,'' before Sydney Jones enrolled at Texas Tech, April Jones told USA TODAY Sports."But we just thought, just going to be a good, tough college coach. Never thought it would cross the line of being mentally abusive.''
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