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Video emerges of mom fighting referee in ugly youth basketball scene

Make New York Post a Preferred Source The tapes have dropped from an altercation during a seventh grade girls travel basketball game in Anaconda, Mont., last year.

Released by NBC Montana after first obtained by Bill Foley, the surveillance video starts with showing referee Shawn Wetzel speaking to a parent in the crowd, who could not be initially seen in the frame. Soon after, a woman, later identified as Cassie Congdon, charges down to Wetzel and attempts to swat at him over a barrier.

She then jumped over the barrier and put her hands on Wetzel before other parents and officials broke up the altercation.

Congdon was subsequently ejected from the gym and the game continued on.

Shortly after the incident, she resigned from her role as the girls head soccer coach at Flathead High School while Wetzel was let go from his role as a volunteer assistant boys basketball coach at Butte High.

Congdon went on to plead guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct in the Deer Lodge County Justice Court on Sept. 10.

In a recent interview, Wetzel told Foley he is no longer interested in volunteering as a high school coach but he continues to officiate youth basketball.

Read original at New York Post

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