UMass Lowell baseball coach Ken Harring will not be relieved of his position after an independent investigation into claims of racial discrimination toward a player determined that Harring "did not violate (university) policy."
UMass Lowell administrators hired independent investigator Brigid Harrington on March 9 after one of Harring's former players, Cedric Rose, whose father is Black and mother is White, alleged through NAACP attorney Ed Burley that Harring removed Rose from the team in February after learning that the player kept notes about the coach's alleged racist behavior in a diary.
The independent investigator concluded that Harring “did not engage in race-based harassment” or in “retaliation against Rose for the observations he made in his diary," and instead "had legitimate, nondiscriminatory, and nonpretextual reasons for dismissing (Rose)."
Harring declined to comment on the findings.
