Ex-NFL cornerback Shareece Wright has come forward as one of 12 former high school football players accusing a former trainer of sexual assault.
After being a team captain in his senior season at USC, Wrigth played in the NFL from 2011 to 2018 for the San Diego Chargers, San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, and Houston Texans.
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Wright recently opened up about the allegations in an interview with ESPN in which he says that a trainer at Colton High School in Colton, California named Tiffany Strauss-Gordon performed several sexual acts on him while he was a member of the football team there.
Strauss-Gordon is the daughter of then-head coach Harold Strauss.
This from the ESPN report:
“Wright told ESPN, and alleged in the lawsuit, that he first got to know Tiffany Strauss, as she was then known, in 2002, during his freshman season at Colton. At the time, he was 15 and she was 21. He alleged that she became increasingly flirtatious, displaying favoritism toward him and giving him a pet nickname, behavior he now recognizes as grooming.
Over the next three years, Wright alleged, Strauss-Gordon touched him inappropriately during treatment sessions and performed oral sex on him in the training room. During his junior year, when Wright was 17, he had multiple sexual encounters with Strauss in the training room, locker room and weight room, he told ESPN. The lawsuit also says he had sex with Strauss during several weekly team dinners at coach Harold Strauss’s home.”
Strauss-Gordon has denied the allegations but was placed on administrative leave in 2022 after the allegations surfaced.
