Clark Atlanta’s coach and SIAC Women’s Coach of the Year Yolanda Moore complains of toxic environment for women

YOLANDA MOORE
Courtesy: CAU Athletics

ATLANTA, Georgia -- Clark Atlanta University’s women’s basketball head coach Yolanda Moore has released a statement in opposition to a release shared from the university regarding her “leave of absence.” Moore and other women coaches at Clark Atlanta have filed numerous complaints with Debra Hoyt, Clark Atlanta’s director of human resources.

The women have complained that the university’s athletic director James Linwood Dawson Jr. has created a toxic environment that heavily discriminates against women and female athletics.

Further, the complaints reveal, female athletics teams have lost scholarships and have not been treated equally like the male sports at Clark Atlanta University.

“The unfair treatment of the female student-athletes and the coaches neeUd justice,” Moore said. “We have been treated unfairly and we have made all of these complaints to (Human Resources) and the university’s President (Ronald A. Jackson). Yet, nothing has been done.”

Earlier this week, on July 9, Clark Atlanta University’s athletic department distributed a news release that revealed ...

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