“This behavior has no place in the Big Ten and college athletics as a whole. It is totally unacceptable,” McIntosh said. “We have been in contact with Austin, his parents and the Iowa athletics administration and I am thankful that our colleagues at Iowa are investigating the incident. I appreciate the Gomez family having the courage to bring this to light. They have our complete support.”
Iowa’s athletics department said in a statement that it reached out to Gomez and UW to apologize.
“Any individual found in violation of our fan behavior policy is subject to being banned from attending future Hawkeye Athletic events,” the statement said.
Gomez also weighed in on the incident, saying what happened “is not surprising to me as I experienced the same thing when I wrestled for Iowa State at Carver.”
The incident comes less than a month after UW-Madison banned a fan who was shown on video to be making racist gestures toward Northwestern University fans during a basketball game from buying tickets to future sporting events.
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