Rape victim slated to speak to Baylor football team

A month after speaking at Nebraska, Brenda Tracy will visit Baylor.

During her visit to Nebraska, she told the story of being sexually assaulted in 1998 by four men, including two Oregon State football players. Nebraska head coach Mike Riley was at Oregon State at the time and only suspended the two involved players for a game each after charges were not pursued.

She faced Riley for the first time in June and addressed his team. She said the experience lifted a significant weight off her back. And now she wants to communicate her message to Baylor, a school ravaged by a sexual assault scandal.

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Tracy told The Oregonian’s John Canzano that she was invited by Jim Grobe, Baylor’s acting head coach. She will visit the Waco campus on July 25. Other teams could potentially be in attendance, too.

Baylor football program has invited other Baylor men's programs to listen to @brendatracy24 presentation. She is there July 25.

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Grobe is filling in this season for Art Briles, who was removed as Baylor head coach in late May after summary findings of an independent investigation into the school’s handling of sexual assault accusations – including several involving Bears football players – were released. The investigation was conducted by Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton and its findings were released by Baylor’s Board of Regents. The investigation determined that the university’s response to accusations were “wholly inadequate.” It also found “specific failings within both the football program and athletics department leadership” and said there were “significant concerns about the tone and culture within Baylor’s football program as it relates to accountability for all forms of student-athlete misconduct.”

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Tracy previously wrote in an open letter last month that the Bears football program should be “shut down.”

“It was Baylor that triggered so much for me,” she told CBS Sports. “I wrote that open letter to the Baylor regents that they should get the death penalty. The idea that this is circling around that I’m going to be standing there before those players (is amazing.)”

She said last month that she did not spare any specifics about her assault when she spoke at Nebraska.

“Every detail. The players were really engaged. I didn’t see anyone on their cell phone. Coach Riley said he had never seen them like this,” Tracy said per Omaha.com.

Before she heads to Waco, Tracy could speak with NCAA officials in Chicago.

From CBS Sports:

In an unrelated development, Tracy recently spoke to NCAA president Mark Emmert by phone. She has been invited to Chicago on July 21 to meet with NCAA chief of staff Cari Van Senus and NCAA chief medical officer Brian Hainline.

Tracy is hoping to help develop NCAA legislation that would ban recruits and transfers who have been involved in sexual assault from playing.

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