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Posted on: Monday, October 12, 2009

CFB: EEOC complaint resolved for New Mexico coach


By TIM KORTE
AP Sports Writer

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. � New Mexico coach Mike Locksley has resolved �all legal claims� involving a former football administrative assistant, although details were scarce in a statement issued by the university.

According to a plaintiff�s attorney, Locksley told Sylvia Lopez she was too old to be attractive to recruits, prompting the 25-year university employee to file an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint against the coach in April.
It alleged age discrimination, retaliation and, according to comments attributed to Lopez�s attorney, Whitney Warner, sexual harassment.
The statement, issued late Monday, indicated it was �unfortunate the label of sexual harassment was used in this case because it never fit� Lopez�s circumstances.