159. On November 17, Plaintiff Doe IV met with several University representatives including Jon Gilbert (Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director), Mike Ward (Senior Associate Athletics Director) and her varsity teams head coach. Gilbert, Ward and the head coach began the meeting by informing Plaintiff that the football team had just announced the immediate suspension of the two football players who had assaulted her, A.J. Johnson and Mike Williams, from all team activities.
160. When Plaintiff Doe IV asked whether the suspension was limited to football, she was assured that both Johnson and Williams would not be allowed to step foot on the athletic footprint of the campus.
161. During the meeting, Plaintiff Doe IV also voiced concerns of how the incident would be handled by the university as she had only recently (after she had been assaulted) become aware of the Marlin Lane incident from 2013, that also involved allegations of sexual assault against football players and reports of subsequent harassment by their supporters against the victim.
162. While the aforementioned was being discussed, Plaintiff Doe IV received a message from Plaintiff Doe V who was witnessing (at that moment) several football players jumping Drae Bowles, a member of the football team that had actually taken Plaintiff Doe IV to the hospital the night of her assault and who had supported her decision to report the incident to the authorities.
163. Plaintiff Doe IV informed Gilbert, Ward and the head coach at that time and even provided the identities of the players, but was told only well look into it.
164. Plaintiff Doe IV later understood that athletic coaches were present during that altercation but has never been informed of any action was ever taken against the players in reference to that incident.
165. Days later, Plaintiff Doe IV became aware of a second assault on Drae Bowles in the team facility by the same football players.
166. Plaintiff Doe IV brought the second assault to the attention of school administrators but again, has never received information of any action taken by UT against these players although she has since been made aware that Drae Bowles transferred to another school.
167. The actions and intent of UT football players against Drae Bowles were disclosed by Williams in his November 26, 2014, interview with the police, when he stated that his teammate, Geraldo Orta, had told Williams that the football team had a hit out on Drae Bowles.
168. In his interviews with police, UT football player Geraldo Orta stated that he felt Bowles had betrayed the team and that where he (Orta) came from, people got shot for doing what Bowles did. These facts are set forth in the Knoxville Police Department Incident Report.
169. During the interview Orta also admitted having approached Drae Bowles in Smokeys Cafe (the athletic dining facility), getting in his face and saying some threatening things.
170. Orta further acknowledged that UT football player Curt Maggitt had also, in a separate incident, confronted Drae Bowles in the team locker room before the team was instructed by Head Coach Butch Jones not to talk to him and before Bowles was given time away from the team.
171. The second assault on Bowles was admitted by Curt Maggit in his own interviews with police as well as the fact that he had purchased alcohol for the party.
172. No discipline was administered to either player.
173. In the days following the meeting, Plaintiff Doe IV became aware that Williams and Johnson were and would continue to be allowed to remain on campus and, contrary to the official statements, would be allowed access to the academic support centers (shared by women's and men's athletics).
174. Plaintiff Doe IV made the decision to stay at home with family until exams out of the fear of a possible encounter simply by following her own class and tutoring schedule.