Two athletes at a US university have been disciplined for allegedly spray-painting graffiti outside a Jewish centre on their campus.

The University of Michigan students are believed to have vandalised the on-campus Jewish resource centre in broad daylight in August, daubing homophobic slurs on the pavement in front of the building. 

Footage captured by security cameras was shared by the local police force, which asked the public to help identify the two figures seen.

A male member of the university’s ice hockey team, the Wolverines, and a female member of its lacrosse team, have been named as the students responsible, according to American news site The Algemeiner.

Ice hockey player Johnny Druskinis has reportedly been suspended indefinitely from the sports team, while Megan Minturn has apparently been suspended, though not removed from her team.

On Friday, university newspaper The Michigan Daily, quoted a spokesperson for the hockey team, who said: “Johnny Druskinis is no longer on the Michigan Hockey roster, following a violation of team rules.”

They did not provide details regarding which rules he broke.

In another incident over the summer at the University of Michigan, a fraternity house was graffitied with a swastika and homophobic slur on two windows and the front door.

The University of Michigan previously scored a C in StopAntisemitism’s 2022 campus climate report, which examined the best and worst universities for Jewish students based on how universities treated antisemitic incidents.

There was a 41 per cent increase in antisemitic incidents on US university campuses from 2021 to 2022, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The University of Michigan has been contacted for comment.