UNC chapel hill settles athlete's lawsuit accusing soccer coach of sexual harassment.(Newswatch)(University of North Carolina )(Brief Article)

The University of North Carolina will pay a former soccer player $70,000 and coach Anson Dorrance will attend eight years of sensitivity training on sexual harassment to settle part of a $12 million lawsuit filed in 1998.

Dorrance, who has won 18 national championships at North Carolina, was accused of grilling women players about their sex lives and making unwanted sexual advances.

For the next eight years, Dorrance will attend sensitivity training on gender issues in coaching and training on the university's sexual harassment policy. He claimed the discussions were teasing and not meant to be offensive.

Agreeing to the settlement was Debbie Keller, who played for the team from 1993 to 1996. She also was dropped from the 1999 U.S. national soccer team for suing in 1998, according to her complaint, which accuses the university, several university administrators, three assistant soccer ...