Boermeester

BACKGROUND

In 2016 and 2017, Boermeester was a member of the USC football team and Jane Roe was a member of USC’s women’s tennis team. Boermeester and Roe dated from March 2016 to approximately October 2016. On January 21, 2017, after midnight, three male USC students heard screaming in the alley behind their residence. Two of them looked outside and observed Boermeester put his hand on Roe’s neck and push her against a wall. One of the men, MB2, went outside, which broke up the encounter and resulted in Boermeester and Roe walking away. The two other men, TS and DH, lived in the other half of Roe’s duplex and spoke with her soon after the incident. One or more of the men reported this incident to the USC men’s tennis coach, who reported it to USC’s Title IX Coordinator, Gretchen Means. USC began an investigation into the incident. Means and USC’s Title IX Investigator Lauren Helsper met with Roe on January 23, 2017. We previously summarized Roe’s statements as follows: Roe reported she spent the day with Boermeester on Friday, January 20, 2017. He called to ask her to pick him up from a party at approximately 12:30 or 1:00 a.m. on January 21, 2017. She did, and after getting…