Former Nebraska women’s basketball assistant Chuck Love has reportedly admitted to having a sexual relationship with former Cornhuskers player Ashley Scoggin, according to court documents obtained by ESPN.
The documents, filed in March by Scoggin’s attorney, Maren Chaloupka, are related to the civil suit she filed in 2024, in which she alleges Love groomed her in order to have sex with her. She also alleges that the university mishandled the situation before she was ultimately dismissed from the team.
She is seeking a jury trial in Lincoln, Nebraska and unspecified monetary damages.
Love initially denied the sexual relationship, but Chaloupka wrote in the March 17 filing that, “At his February 5, 2026 deposition, Love for the first time admitted that he had a sexual relationship with Ashley.” She added that codefendants — former head coach Amy Williams, former athletic director Trev Alberts and the university board of regents — all endorsed his denial.
The codefendants claimed in a joint response to the civil suit in 2024 that they did not have “sufficient information and belief to either admit or deny the allegations.”
Scoggin alleges that the university did not put into place any policies forbidding sexual relationships between staff and athletes and, as a result, the lack of safeguards “was so reckless that misconduct involving sexual misconduct by coaches was inevitable as of September 2021.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Love’s attorney for comment.
“It’s a very troubling and serious subject of predatory coaches that pursue sexual relationships with student-athletes,” Chaloupka said when the case was first filed, according to the AP. “There’s an enormous imbalance of power between the professional coach and student-athletes. This is something that was well known in 2022.”
She continued, “Certainly Division I universities that operate at the top level are well aware of the harm that comes from this kind of a predatory situation, and there’s a strong onus on the university and on the coaches to prevent this from happening and, heaven forbid it does happen, to address is correctly.”
The relationship between Love and Scoggin was revealed in February 2022, when teammates allegedly concocted a plan to catch her in the coach’s hotel room during a road trip. The plan included a male practice player, who obtained a duplicate key to Love’s room, another player luring Love away from the room and others entering the room while recording on their phones. Scoggin was found inside, fully clothed.
Love was suspended without pay upon returning from the trip and Scoggin was kicked off the team. He resigned months later while she transferred to UNLV.
“Williams cast Ashley in the role of a seducer and a liar,” the lawsuit says. “She allowed the players to berate and accuse Ashley for hours. She did not redirect or counsel the players that what they had seen may be the result of an abuse of power by her associate head coach.”
A university spokesperson responded to the allegations at the time, saying that while the school “does not comment on specifics of pending litigation, it does not agree with the allegations contained in the complaint and intends to vigorously defend this matter.”
