She married an actual gutter ball.
An assistant women’s bowling coach at Stephen F. Austin State University, whose wife is the pinnacle coach, selected to resign after the varsity discovered he had an affair with a member of the team.
Steve Lemke, 38, who’s married to go coach Amber Lemke, resigned from this system on April 10 — and said in a press release obtained by The Day by day Sentinel that although “I knew it was sort of a no-no, there’s not a rule saying it may well’t occur.”
The outlet said it selected to not discover the student-athlete, who was a member of the Ladyjacks bowling team.
Steve was brazen and unapologetic about his actions.
“There’s not a law saying I’m going to go to jail for doing something like this,” Steve said. “There’s nothing in stone. I assume it’s just an ethics code, like we frown upon it, but there’s no rule, there’s no law broken.”
Steve and Amber have since filed for divorce, in accordance with court records.
SFA athletic director Ryan Ivey said although Lemke and the student-athlete are two consenting adults, they violated the university’s relationship rules.
Although consensual sexual relationships between faculty and students at the school level should not prohibited under state law, some universities have policies in place forbidding those forms of relationships.
SFA is a four-year teaching and research university positioned in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Steve said the affair was discovered when Amber saw a text message from the student-athlete on his phone.
“It didn’t have anything intimately,” Steve said of the text. “It was nearly how amazing I’m, principally, on the whole perspective.
“Amber saw that and questioned me and I got to the purpose where it just built up a lot that I principally told her the reality after she dug through my phone.”
“I used to be the stay-at-home dad for five years with the children while Amber got to go off and coach the team, and when she’d get back, I’d run practices on top of caring for the children while she was back,” Lemke said.
“After they’d travel again, I might sit back and maintain the children. Then once I got hired on, she almost forced me to run practices. I used to be a volunteer the complete time before that attempting to help out Amber. Once I got hired on, one thing stemmed from one other. I felt like I used to be doing an excessive amount of for what I used to be being valued at.”
Amber was hired as head coach within the 2011-12 school 12 months, two years after SFA’s bowling program began, in accordance with The Day by day Sentinel.
Steve was a volunteer assistant until Sept. 1, 2019, when he was officially hired as an assistant coach — and reported on to Loree McCary, Associate Athletic Director for Administration on account of state nepotism laws.
“He’s not working here anymore,” Ivey said of Steve. “From a departmental standpoint, he had a selection and he selected to resign.”
Amber has coached the ladies’s bowling team at SFA to 2 national titles and two second-place finishes.
Amber will return as head coach and the student-athlete involved within the affair won’t return to the team, as she has no eligibility.
“As soon as we discovered, we went through the method,” Ivey said. “We support our student-athletes and clearly Amber, with what was happening.”
Steve Lemke’s bio now not exists on the SFA athletics website.
Steve and Amber welcomed their first son, Ryder, in the summertime of 2015 and their second son, Ayden, within the spring of 2017, in accordance with her SFA bio.
Amber didn’t reply to requests for comment, The Day by day Sentinel reported.
