Katie Meyer’s dad and mom have filed a wrongful demise lawsuit towards Stanford, saying the 21-year-old goalie was distressed about going through self-discipline over an incident from August 2021.
Meyer took her personal life in late February. The civil lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Santa Clara County Superior Court docket. USA In the present day obtained the lawsuit.
The lawsuit says Meyer spilled espresso on a Stanford soccer participant who allegedly had sexually assaulted a soccer teammate. It additionally mentioned that Meyer acquired a proper written discover on the night of Feb. 28 — the identical evening she died — that charged her with a “Violation of the Elementary Commonplace.”
The violation put her diploma on maintain just a few months earlier than she was alleged to graduate, USA In the present day reported.
Her dad and mom argue within the lawsuit that the discover got here “after-hours” whereas Meyer was “alone in her room with none assist or assets.” The lawsuit says that Meyer responded to the e-mail “expressing how ‘shocked and distraught’ she was over being charged and threatened with elimination from the college” and acquired a follow-up electronic mail that scheduled a gathering three days later.
Her dad and mom mentioned within the lawsuit that Meyer had “an acute stress response that impulsively led her” to take her life. The lawsuit additionally says that Meyer had informed Stanford workers in November 2021 that she had “been scared for months that my clumsiness will destroy my possibilities of leaving Stanford on a great notice.”
Stanford’s assistant vice chairman of exterior communications, Dee Mostofi, informed USA In the present day on Wednesday that the college “strongly disagreed” with the lawsuit’s declare that Stanford was accountable in Meyer’s demise and hadn’t seen the criticism.
Meyer was part of the 2019 nationwide champion ladies’s soccer staff. She stopped two penalty pictures in Stanford’s 5-4 shootout victory over North Carolina after a scoreless draw.