Matt Boermeester kicked the game winning field goal for USC in the Rose Bowl back in January. The last six months have not been what you would expect for the Trojan football player. The University suspended Boermeester earlier this year for an alleged incident involving his girlfriend, USC tennis player Zoe Katz. TMZ has learned that Katz is denying the abuse claims.
Katz has released a statement vehemently defending Boermeester and harshly criticizing USC for how it handled the alleged incident. The statement, in part, read:
I am Zoe Katz and I am a 22 year old student athlete at USC (captain of the women’s tennis team), nationally ranked singles player and have been dating Matt Boermeester for well over a year. Matt, the Trojan kicker who helped win the Rose Bowl, has been falsely accused of conduct involving me.
Terrible and untrue things have been said about Matt by people who don’t even know him, including apparently the third party who contacted Title IX, and these bizarre assertions have been treated as fact in this investigation. Words, including mine, have been incompetently or intentionally misrepresented, misquoted and taken out of context, which should not be that surprising since no statements were recorded or verified.
Matt Boermeester did nothing improper against me, ever. I would not stand for it. Nor will I stand for watching him be maligned and lied about, and I implore the USC community to stand together to stop this from happening to Matt or anyone else.
There has been no official word from USC in response to the suspension or Katz’s statement.