NCAA reverses course and allows Emily Scheck to receive GoFundMe donations and retain NCAA eligibility
The NCAA initially told Emily Scheck, an openly-lesbian cross-country runner at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, that she could either forfeit her eligibility and give up her ability to compete as a collegiate cross-country runner or return donations that she receive via GoFundMe that are, because her parents disowned her because of her sexual orientation, necessary for her to have a good standard of living. Here is how ThinkProgress initially reported about the NCAA's original decision regarding Scheck (proofreading mine): Emily Scheck, a cross-country runner at Canisius College in upstate New York, had to deal with this worst-case scenario when her parents discovered, through social media, that she was dating a woman: She was told to either return home so she could receive dehumanizing, harmful, and ineffective conversion therapy, or stay at school and be cut out of their lives forever, according to a report by Outsports. (Scheck) did not want to endure conversion th...