A lesbian former basketball player at Southern Methodist University is suing the school for $2 million after she alleges it pulled her scholarship when she complained about the program’s head coach.

Jennifer Colli says Coach Rhonda Rampola pursued gay players and monitored their relationships.

While other universities worked to recruit her, Colli’s sister had already played at SMU. She said she was ecstatic to join the SMU team with a basketball scholarship in 2005.

But her excitement soon turned to shock at the first team gathering, which was when she said Coach Rhonda Rampola said she would not tolerate relationships, referring to gay relationships, among her players.

“I was sitting around and looking and thinking, is this normal?” she said while recalling the meeting held in the locker room. “Is this what we talk about in team meetings?”

Colli, who says several members of the team were gay, alleges Rampola asked players about their relationships with each other.

“That’s a choice,” she said. “If you want to do that or whoever, that’s their choice. It’s not the coach’s choice to tell them who not to date.”

As the season advanced, Colli said she began keeping a diary of problems in the program, which included Rampola’s continuous monitoring of players relationships.

Colli lost her scholarship in the fall of 2006 after airing her allegations to school officials. The school says her scholarship was taken away because she lied about the charges and violated school rules.

“She was retaliated against for bringing to the athletic director items which she says negatively affected the team,” said Mike Kelley, Colli’s lawyer.

Watch a video piece from WFAA about the case.