Marissa

Because I had support from my family and friends, I was able to keep going and I had people who were advocating for me.

But people who don't have that, who are at school, out of state, their family isn't around,

I could easily see how someone would be discouraged from moving forward with anything at every single turn that I hit.

Once I told them and I wasn't so worried about them maybe finding out from somewhere else, I definitely felt a lot more fight inside of me.

It also added a little bit of confusion because they also felt so strongly about different things that I needed to do.

We had discussed like every single avenue.

We had discussed the universities, the police, even going to my perpetrator's parents and having a conversation with them.

They had their own opinions about what I should do.

And so in that way, I think it made it a little bit confusing, but it also made it so much easier for me to feel confident to go talk to the University of Utah because this happened and there needs to be something done about it.

One of the players who was there the night of the assault, he was one of their star athletes.

I had mentioned him and that he was there and immediately she perks up and she's like, he wasn't the one that raped you, was he?

And I said, no.

And then she literally said, oh, good.

My mom had called the police captain at the Special Victims Unit.

He says, okay, so your daughter is Marissa?

And she said yes.

And he said, okay, so is she wanting to open an investigation on this?

What do you mean do I want to open my case?

We've been doing this for a full year.

I have the boycott. You have?