North Carolina A&T Cheer Coaches Resign After Rape Allegations End Season

Two cheerleading coaches at North Carolina A&T State University have resigned following rape allegations by a cheer team member who says they didn't report her claims. 

A univeristy spokesman announced the departures Thursday, a day after the school said the cheer team won't perform at its basketball games or at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament in March.

The News and Record reports A&T's cheerleaders haven't performed since early February after a team member alleged publicly that a former member of the marching band raped her. She says the team's two coaches brushed off her claims and didn't report them as required by federal law. She had demanded that both coaches be fired.

The coaches had worked with A&T's cheerleaders for more than a decade.