Former Coach Drops Grievance Against CSUN

Janet Martin, Cal State Northridge’s former women’s basketball coach, has decided not to pursue her third and final option on a grievance that called for the school to pay her $16,000 in salary to which she claimed she was entitled.

Martin’s appeal had been rejected in two previous grievance hearings. Reached by telephone Saturday in Seattle, she said she had been advised that continuing to pursue the case would take “lots and lots of money and possibly many, many years.”

“I didn’t want to invest that much into it,” Martin said.

Martin, 31, resigned as coach under pressure from university athletic administrators Dec. 12. Part of the paperwork she signed was an agreement that called for her to be paid through February.

But within days, she reconsidered, claiming she agreed to the school’s terms under duress. Through the California Faculty Assn., Martin filed her grievance against Northridge, demanding to be paid through June, the end of her original contract.

Martin coaches at a basketball workshop in Bellevue, Wash., where, she said, “I don’t have politics and paperwork and have to work with administrators.

“Basically, I’m doing the fun part of it, the coaching,” she said.