This file photo shows an entrance at Bend High School in 2016.

A Bend High School student is suing the school’s former girls softball coach, Robert Ray, for allegedly walking in on players while they were changing in the locker room.

Lauren Glasser, 18, alleges that she has suffered “emotional distress, worry, anxiety, embarrassment, humiliation, loss of privacy, and a significant loss of trust in the school environment and athletic department” as a result of the March 2024 incident, according to the lawsuit filed in Deschutes County Circuit Court last month.

Glasser is seeking $500,000 in damages for alleged invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Glasser was a member of the softball team when the alleged incident happened. She was 17 at the time, but has since turned 18. Ray was the head coach before he was placed on leave due to the incident. He was later terminated from his position with Bend-La Pine Schools, according to the lawsuit.

Glasser alleges that in March 2024, Ray walked into the girls’ locker room while players were changing. Glasser was “substantially undressed” when he entered, according to the lawsuit. Despite asking him to leave, Ray remained and “observed intimate areas of Ms. Glasser’s body, including her pubic area and breasts, for the purpose of arousing or gratifying his sexual desire,” according to the lawsuit.

Bend-La Pine Schools performed an investigation, during which Glasser’s teammates said on at least two previous occasions Ray had spied on players while they were changing, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit alleges Ray’s behavior was “beyond the bounds of all socially tolerable conduct” and that Glasser should have felt safe at school. Ray acted with “malice and/or a reckless and outrageous indifference” to the risk of harm and Glasser’s welfare, the suit says.

Because it was not named in the lawsuit, Bend-La Pine Schools was not able to comment. The district confirmed that Ray was employed as a softball coach at Bend High during the 2023 and 2024 seasons, which were each around three months long. During the 2024 season, he was placed on paid leave pending the outcome of a Bend Police Department investigation, wrote Scott Maben, district communications director, in a text message. After the police department’s investigation, the district performed its own, after which the district did not make Ray an offer of employment for this school year.

Neither Glasser nor Ray could not be reached for comment.

Glasser’s lawyer, Ryan Kaiser, said it’s an unfortunate situation that Glasser has been put in and that the lawsuit wasn’t something that was taken lightly.