NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A New Jersey teen who was supposed to play for Cornell University’s football team this fall has been removed from the team for using a racial slur in a Snapchat video, according to a report.
Nate Panza, who was a running back on Morristown-Beard School’s football team, was caught on Snapchat video saying ‘f--- that n-----” the New York Post reported.
A classmate of Panza’s who filmed the video, Adam Giaquinto, also used the N-word in the video, according to the outlet.
In a statement provided to the Post, Cornell University’s director of Athletics and Physical Education, Andy Noel, said the school’s head football coach “made the decision to rescind (Panza’s) offer to join the team in the fall.”
“There is no room for this behavior in Cornell Athletics,” Noel said.
Panza apologized for using the word in a statement provided to the Cornell Daily Sun.
“A video was taken of me using a word that is offensive and hurtful,” he wrote. “The word has a long history of cruelty for the Black community and is simply wrong. I am heartbroken I have hurt people; those I know and those I do not.”
“I take full responsibility for my actions,” he added. “I do not believe that my language that night aligns with who I have tried to be as a person, the values I live by or the manner in which I have conducted myself as an athlete.”