A former Arizona Wildcats swimmer is suing the University of Arizona, alleging a fellow team member beat him up in 2016 and the school's world-renowned head coach blamed him for the assault and retaliated.
Nicholas Hogsed claims in a lawsuit that another team member violently attacked him in August 2016, causing multiple injuries and requiring medical treatment at a hospital.
He claims that after he reported the assault to head coach Rick DeMont and the university's dean of students, DeMont retaliated by "repeatedly blaming, demeaning and belittling" him, at one point indicating Hogsed was playing the victim and telling him he needed to "be a man.