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The University of Notre Dame reportedly has fired a white, female academic coach "who allegedly coerced black football and basketball players into having sex with her daughter," according to the New York Daily News, which says it obtained an internal school report noting that the coach violated the university's "values" and its "discrimination harassment policy."

Additionally, a lawsuit was filed Friday against the employee and university, according to a report in the South Bend Tribune.

The suit, filed in St. Joseph County Circuit Court, reportedly claims the male student was "a victim of sexual harassment and racial discrimination."

According to the suit, the paper reports, "the employee began providing academic help to the male student this past spring and immediately 'initiated, directed and coordinated a sexually and racially motivated inappropriate and demeaning relationship' between the student and her daughter."

The daughter is allegedly a student at a nearby school.

A statement USA Today College received from Paul Brown, vice president of the university's Office of Public Affairs & Communication, reads that the "allegations against the University of Notre Dame in the complaint are unfounded, as are gratuitous and unfounded references to 'student athletes' — an allegation that is nothing more than cynical attempt to attract publicity."

It did not address the reported firing of the academic coach.

According to NBC News, the student "enrolled at Notre Dame in 2014 and met with the defendant for academic support in spring 2015, at which point she 'immediately' coordinated the relationship, going so far as to provide hotel rooms and condoms for them. She also allegedly tried to pressure the student to convert to Catholicism."