{"id":278448,"date":"2026-04-21T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278448\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:04:23","slug":"former-san-diego-state-univ-female-athletes-settle-title-ix-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278448\/","title":{"rendered":"Former San Diego State Univ. female athletes settle Title IX lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \">A federal judge has approved a \u201clandmark settlement that will pay former female athletes at San Diego State a combined $300,000 in damages\u201d after they sued the school and accused it of violating Title IX. U.S. District Judge Todd Robinson ordered that the $300,000 is \u201cto be split among a class of 798 former athletes\u201d at SDSU. The plaintiffs\u2019 attorney Arthur Bryant said that while that \u201cmight not seem like much,\u201d this outcome \u201cmarks something bigger.\u201d Bryant: \u201cThese women have made history. This is the first case ever in which a school is going to pay damages to women athletes for depriving them of equal athletic financial aid.\u201d The lawsuit, filed in 2022, accused the university of \u201cdepriving female athletes of equal scholarship money compared to male athletes\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/2026\/04\/21\/title-ix-lawsuit-settlement-approved-san-diego-state-womens-sports\/89711003007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USA TODAY, 4\/21<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge has approved a \u201clandmark settlement that will pay former female athletes at San Diego State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7479,74,76,75,8859],"class_list":["post-278448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-legal","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}