A former Nebraska women’s basketball star had sex with an assistant coach, which led to her being removed from the roster in 2022, according to new court documents.
Ashley Scoggin filed a lawsuit against the coach, Chuck Love, in 2024, alleging that her civil rights were violated in the lead-up to her dismissal. Scoggin seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages.
Earlier in the proceedings, Love claimed he never had a sexual relationship with Scoggin.
However, Maren Chaloupka, Scoggin’s attorney, wrote in a March 17 filing, “At his February 5, 2026, deposition, Love for the first time admitted that he had a sexual relationship with Ashley.”
Chaloupka wrote that the university’s Board of Regents, head coach Amy Williams and former athletic director Trev Alberts — all named as co-defendants — “endorsed his denial.”
The former guard wrote in the complaint that Love took a special interest in her and that the pair’s relationship eventually became sexual. She added that she feared retribution if she did not have sex with Love.
Scoggin said Love would talk about inappropriate topics with her and asked her to join him for drinks in 2021.
The relationship came to a head in 2022 when Scoggin’s teammates devised an elaborate scheme to prove she was in Love’s hotel room prior to the team’s game with Penn State.
A different player went to Love’s room under the pretense of needing to talk about something and luring him from the room. Another player obtained a room key from a hotel staffer through deception.
When Love left the room, two players went inside while recording the incident on their phones. Scoggin was found inside, fully clothed. Another two players were watching the incident unfold on FaceTime.
Love long denied that anything improper was going on at the time, saying that he was on the phone with his wife and son when Scoggin knocked on his door. She had gone there to discuss something with Love.
This resulted in an “emotionally charged” team meeting.
“Those present demanded that Ashley explain why she was in Love’s room (and had been out of her hotel room on previous road trips) and accused Ashley of lying,” the documents read.
“Ashley was, in fact, still lying during the inquiry. Love was a few feet away from her in the room, along with Williams and the rest of the coaching staff. Love had told her not to disclose the relationship.”
“Ashley was afraid that if she did disclose it during the inquiry, her coaches and teammates would blame her (and be) blamed as an equal participant in the relationship as if her power were equal to that of the associate head coach.”
Scoggin was subsequently removed from the team.
Scoggin played two seasons for the Cornhuskers. She was dismissed from the team on the same day Love was suspended with pay in February 2022. Love resigned three months later. Scoggin, who is from Dallas, Oregon, transferred to UNLV.
Williams and Alberts, now the athletic director at Texas A&M, are accused of not setting rules, training or policies prohibiting staff members from having sexual relationships with athletes.
