First RIT women's track runner comes forward about sharing team and locker room with viral trans athlete
Caroline Hill is the first RIT women's track athlete to speak out about the school allowing biological male Sadie Schreiner on the team after years of silence.
EXCLUSIVE: Caroline Hill turned down multiple Division I women's track and field scholarships to compete for Division III Rochester Institute of Technology.
Her talents allowed her to break the program record in the 200-meter and 300-meter early in her collegiate career. But then she had to watch both records fall to transgender teammate Sadie Schreiner, all while feeling "uncomfortable" sharing a locker room with her trans teammate for the next two years.
Then, even after Schreiner was ruled ineligible to compete when the NCAA changed its transgender policy on Feb. 6, Hill alleges Schreiner continued to use the women's locker room and train with the team for another month. RIT has declined to comment on Hill's allegations.
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Former Rochester Institute of Technology women's sprinter Caroline Hill (Courtesy of Caroline Hill)
Now, Hill is the first of Schreiner's former RIT teammates to speak out about the experience. Hill previously joined Riley Gaines' lawsuit vs. the NCAA in 2023 – Schreiner's first official year on her team – as an anonymous plaintiff. But now, she has come forward to put her name down.
Hill claims she and her teammates were introduced to Schreiner as their future teammate in 2022. Schreiner did not officially begin to compete until 2023.
"He was practicing with us a little bit during the preseason," Hill said of the situation in 2022. Fox News Digital was unable to verify why Schreiner did not officially compete for RIT in 2022.
When Schreiner began competing the following year, Hill