A former Baylor volleyball player who said the school mishandled her complaint of having been gang-raped by up to eight Bears football players in 2012 and that the university allowed a “rape culture” to persist within the football program has settled her Title IX lawsuit against the school, according to a notice filed in the case Friday.

The lawsuit, filed in May 2017, involved one of the most pivotal allegations in the entire Baylor sexual assault scandal and was a focal point in the investigation by Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton, which resulted in the firing of football coach Art Briles, suspension and eventual resignation of athletic director Ian McCaw, and demotion and later departure of university president Kenneth Starr.

At issue was who within the athletic department knew about the woman’s allegation and what they did with that information. The lawsuit claimed several Baylor employees, including coaches, failed to properly act when she and her parents told them about the alleged gang rape, and that the woman was subjected to retaliation from the football players and would eventually transfer.

It also alleged that, prior to her reported gang rape, coaches had established a program in which “football players became increasingly emboldened, knowing that they could break the law, code of conduct, and general standards of human decency with no repercussions,” thus putting her and other female students at a heightened risk of assault.

Neither the woman nor the football players she said raped her have ever been publicly identified. The incident was never reported to police.

Baylor released a statement in response to the settlement Friday that read: “Baylor University understands that survivors of sexual and interpersonal violence seek resolution in many ways. In reaching a legal settlement, we acknowledge the challenges this survivor has endured and realize it’s a small step in the healing process.”

It continued: “Under new leadership, Baylor has taken significant actions in response to past reports of sexual violence within our campus community and implemented 105 improvements to our Title IX policy, processes and procedures. We remain steadfast in our commitment to properly respond to incidents of sexual assault, interpersonal violence and harassment.”

It stated that the financial terms of the settlement would not be disclosed.

The woman’s attorney, Muhammad Aziz, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.

The lawsuit had detailed the alleged assault on Feb. 11, 2012, when the woman went to an off-campus party at a football player’s apartment. The woman said she was drinking and believes she was drugged. A friend of the woman reported seeing one football player trying to pull her into a bathroom several times at the party. Another player, whose sexual advances the woman had turned down the day before, kept grabbing at her all night despite her repeatedly telling him “no,” the lawsuit stated.

According to the lawsuit, once the woman’s friends left, a football player picked her up, put her in his vehicle and drove her to another location, where at least four — and up to eight — football players “brutally gang raped” her.

“Plaintiff remembers lying on her back, unable to move and staring at glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling as the football players took turns raping her,” the lawsuit stated. “Following the gang rape, plaintiff remembers hearing the players yell, ‘Grab her phone! Delete my numbers and texts!'”

What happened next has been of great dispute and has played out in other court filings, releases from the university and interviews with sources.

The lawsuit stated