Athletes ‘stand together’ with sex assault survivors after players charged
HALIFAX — Some female athletes at St. Francis Xavier University have come up with a remarkable response to sex-assault charges against two members of the varsity football team.
Soccer players have launched a solidarity campaign with sexual assault survivors, quelling a potential backlash that experts say can arise in the wake of damning allegations against popular male athletes on university campuses.
Sarah Bruce, a second-year student on the X-Women soccer team, launched the campaign called We Stand Together to channel her anger and spark social change on the Antigonish, N.S., campus, she said.
“I wanted to show we can be unified and create this community of support,” said Bruce, who designed a logo with the university’s well-known X on top of a pink circle and the words “end sexual violence.”