A baseball standout at St. Louis University has been suspended from the team and faces possible expulsion after two female students accused him of sexually assaulting them while incapacitated.
Parker Sniatynski — a 6-foot 4-inch, 205-pound left fielder named to the Atlantic 10 All-Conference team last week — was suspended Tuesday for “violating team policy,” athletics department spokesman Brian Kunderman told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
School officials recommended in a letter dated Friday that Sniatynski be expelled following an investigation, after the female student accused the senior of sexually assaulting her in January after a night of drinking. The allegations were later turned over to campus police, but no investigation was launched, according to the newspaper.
Despite the letter, Sniatynski played in a game later Friday and in another on Saturday in Virginia, where St. Louis beat George Mason University 5-0 to capture the Atlantic 10 Conference championship.
In a statement to The Post, university officials said they were prohibited by federal law from releasing student conduct information without a student’s consent, except in very limited circumstances.
“That includes whether there is or is not an ongoing student conduct investigation,” the statement reads.
Kunderman confirmed that Sniatynski was suspended for violating team policy on Tuesday, four days after the university recommended expulsion in the letter.
“On Tuesday, May 29, the Saint Louis University Department of Athletics learned that a member of the baseball team, Parker Sniatynski, had violated department and team policies,” Kunderman said in a statement. “That same day, Sniatynski was suspended from the team and from all team activities.
The female student, according to the Post-Dispatch, accused Sniatynski of having sex with her on Jan. 12 after drinking. The letter recommending his expulsion indicated that the university’s Responsibility & Community Standards director found the woman’s statements to be credible.
Sniatynski “knew or should have known that you were incapacitated,” according to the letter, which stated that the baseball player acknowledged having sexual contact with the woman without her consent, but denied that they had sex.
University officials also deemed credible another accusation involving a second female student who claimed that Snitaynski had sex with her while she was too drunk to consent in September 2017, according to a separate letter obtained by the newspaper. In that case, Sniatynski admitted to having sex with the female student.
Sniatysnki’s bio remained on the team’s website as of Thursday, the deadline for him to appeal decisions that recommended expulsion in both incidents. The Brookfield, Wisconsin, native played in every game as a junior, batting .299 and leading the team in steals and RBIs, according to his player profile.