Brigham Young University announced Friday that it had found no corroborating evidence that a fan directed racist slurs at a player during a women’s volleyball game against Duke last month.
Blue Devils sophomore Rachel Richardson said she endured racist heckling during a match at BYU on Aug. 26. Richardson’s grandmother also said a slur was directed at the player “every time she served.”
“I heard a very strong, negative racial slur,” Richardson told ESPN’s Holly Rowe. “So I served the ball, got through the play. And then the next time I went back to serve, I heard it extremely clear again, but that was the end of the game.”
The school said it conducted an “extensive review” of the incident, which included interviews with more than 50 people who attended the event and the review of security and raw footage from the event.
“From our extensive review, we have not found any evidence to corroborate the allegation that fans engaged in racial heckling or uttered racial slurs at the event,” BYU said in a statement. “As we stated earlier, we would not tolerate any conduct that would make a student-athlete feel unsafe. That is the reason for our immediate response and our thorough investigation.
“As a result of our…
