Siobhan St. John, a former assistant cheerleading coach who worked with Ohio State from 2014-24, filed a lawsuit March 14 alleging racial, gender and religious discrimination against the university. According to the complaint, the alleged discrimination led to St. John's "wrongful discharge" June 20, 2024. St. John officially filed the lawsuit through the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Carey Hoyt, Ohio State's senior associate athletic director, and Benjamin Schreiber, the university's head cheerleading coach, are also named as defendants in the lawsuit, according to the complaint.