A volleyball match was relocated and a spectator was banned from Brigham Younger sporting venues after a Black participant on Duke’s crew turned the goal of racial slurs throughout a sport Friday at Smith Fieldhouse in Provo, Utah.
The incident was first reported by Lesa Pamplin, an lawyer in Fort Price, who tweeted that her goddaughter, Duke outdoors hitter Rachel Richardson, was referred to as a racial slur “each time she served” throughout a match between Duke and BYU. Pamplin additionally stated Richardson, a sophomore from Ellicott Metropolis, Md., who’s the one Black starter on the crew, was “threatened by a white male that informed her to look at her again going to the crew bus.”
