Indiana University has referred allegations against baseball pitcher Jacob Gomberg to its Office of Civil Rights Compliance after authorities in Alachua County, Florida, charged him with stalking and sexual cyberharassment. An Indiana Athletics spokesperson said the office will continue gathering information and assess possible action, according to the Indiana Daily Student.
Indiana pitcher faces Florida charges
The Florida criminal case is separate from a federal civil complaint filed Aug. 26. That complaint alleges that Gomberg, a Coral Springs, Florida, native who transferred to Indiana before his senior season, helped distribute a sexually explicit video involving Maddie Kowalski, a University of Florida student, while she was incapacitated. The allegations have not been adjudicated, according to the Indiana Daily Student.
Gainesville police also charged Kamran Ahmed and Brendan Pitfield with misdemeanor sexual cyberharassment. Ahmed faces an additional third-degree felony charge alleging sexual cyberharassment for financial gain, according to We Got This Covered, citing WIRED. Florida law sets a maximum penalty of one year in county jail and a $1,000 fine for a first-degree misdemeanor under the sexual-cyberharassment statute. A qualifying second or subsequent offense can be a third-degree felony carrying up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine, according to the Florida Legislature's published statute.
What the complaints say about the online posts
Indiana reporting and legal context
According to the Indiana University Police Department, the university's annual security reports include three years of statistics for certain crimes reported on campus, university-controlled non-campus property and nearby public property. Indiana's 2025 report says qualifying reports may be included in annual crime statistics and the daily crime log and may inform campus-wide notifications without personally identifying information. In a separate decision filed Jan. 18, 2022, the Indiana Supreme Court said Indiana's restriction on the nonconsensual distribution of intimate images withstands strict scrutiny. That ruling concerned the constitutionality of an Indiana statute, not the Florida criminal allegations against Gomberg.
What Indiana University can do while the case proceeds
Indiana University's sexual-misconduct policy says the university reviews each report to determine whether it has jurisdiction over the parties and what steps are within its control, according to University policy UA-03. The policy allows supportive and interim measures, which can include suspending a respondent from campus or part of campus while an investigation is pending, depending on the allegations and circumstances. Those university measures are separate from deciding the Florida criminal case. Indiana's student code also allows the university to discipline students for certain off-campus misconduct when it is associated with or affects university activities, undermines the educational process or university community, or poses a threat, according to the Indiana University Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, & Conduct. The cited provisions establish a jurisdiction and conduct-review framework for off-campus allegations; they do not by themselves determine the outcome of Gomberg's pending criminal or civil matters.
The civil complaint also alleges that Gomberg used one or more pseudonymous X accounts to publish recordings. It names an account called maddogtime, which allegedly posted a screenshot of sexually explicit material involving Kowalski on Nov. 3, 2025, alongside her name and other identifying information, according to the Indiana Daily Student.
The Indiana Daily Student reported that investigators used legal process directed to X and Google to obtain information associated with the account. The University of Florida Police Department reportedly determined that the name, phone number and birth date in those records were associated with Gomberg. A separate sworn complaint alleges that multiple people, including Gomberg, distributed additional explicit images and videos of Kowalski.
Federal lawsuits and Gomberg's background
Kowalski has filed federal civil claims against Gomberg, Ahmed and Pitfield, according to case records. The claims seek monetary and punitive damages, along with an injunction requiring the destruction of copies of the videos, the Indiana Daily Student reported.
Gomberg spent his first two college seasons at Florida and played his junior season at UNLV before transferring to Indiana, according to UNLV Athletics. Before college, he pitched in Parkland, Florida, where he won state championships at North Broward Prep and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to Parkland Talk. Gomberg declined to comment through an attorney when contacted by WIRED, according to the Indiana Daily Student.
Indiana Athletics said it would continue monitoring the legal process and gathering information before deciding whether further action is warranted, according to the Indiana Daily Student.
