Rutgers reached a legal settlement with former swimming and diving head coach Petra Martin for $725,000, Keith Sargeant of NJ Advance Media reported Friday afternoon. Sargeant’s full report is here:
The amount that Rutgers is paying Martin through the settlement is more than three times what she was owed on the remainder of her contract, which was $227,000 per Sargeant’s original report from November 2017. Additional terms to the settlement were as follows, via Sargeant:
As part of the agreement with Martin and her attorneys, Rutgers was required to release a statement that publicly exonerated the coach 13 months after an NJ Advance Media report revealed a toxic culture within the swimming program, according to interviews with former swimmers and parents of athletes who were on the team.