I’m a day behind everyone else on this story as it was all over the place yesterday. One reason it made the rounds is because of the clever headline, Spare relationship causes awkward split
To set it up…Women’s bowling is a big deal at Stephen F. Austin University, “Women’s bowling is the only sport at SFA to win a national title after the university moved up to NCAA’s Division I. The bowling team was the NCAA champion in 2016 and 2019. The bowlers finished as runner-up in 2015 and 2022.”
The assistant bowling coach (a male) is married to the head bowling coach (a woman). He cheated on his wife with a student and was fired.
He says some wild things, such as:
“I knew it was kind of a no-no, but there’s not a rule saying it can’t happen,” Steve Lemke said. “There’s not a law saying I’m going to go to jail for doing something like this. There’s nothing in stone. I guess it’s just an ethics code, like we frown upon it, but there’s no rule, there’s no law broken.”
“It didn’t have anything in detail,” Steve Lemke said of the text. “It was just about how amazing I am, basically, in general perspective.