USC girls’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb suffered a bitter defeat Saturday when her workforce misplaced 79-51 to top-ranked workforce UConn. However after she walked off court docket, she weighed in on a extra urgent matter: the lethal taking pictures at her alma mater, Brown College.
“It’s the weapons,” Gottlieb stated as she started a post-game information convention on the Ivy League college. “It doesn’t have to be this manner.”
Gottlieb stated she obtained again to the locker room Saturday after the USC Trojans’ residence sport with No. 1 UConn Huskies and had “1,000,000 textual content messages” from former Brown teammates. A gunman had opened hearth throughout closing exams, killing two college students and injuring 9 others.
“We’re the one nation that lives this manner,” Gottlieb stated, her voice shaking as she famous that she knew individuals who have youngsters at Brown. “Dad and mom mustn’t need to be fearful about their youngsters.”
Gottlieb, who graduated from Brown in 1999, was a member of the ladies’s basketball workforce and served as a pupil assistant coach throughout her senior season.
One in every of her former teammates, she stated, was flying into Windfall on Sunday, as a result of she had a daughter who had taken shelter within the basement of the library, and “she doesn’t know what’s occurring there.”
Oscar Perez, the Windfall police chief, stated Sunday that an individual of curiosity in his 20s was in custody. No prices have been filed, he stated, noting “we’re within the means of accumulating proof.”
On Saturday, college students and college spent the night time on lockdown, trapped inside lecture rooms and dorms whereas legislation enforcement fanned out throughout Windfall to seek for the shooter.
“Hopefully, everyone seems to be protected and praying for peace for people who have misplaced individuals,” Gottlieb stated earlier than she assessed her workforce’s sport towards the Huskies. “And that’s that. It’s extra essential than basketball. We will all be higher.”
Brown College has canceled all remaining lessons and exams for the autumn semester.
“The previous 24 hours actually have been unimaginable,” Christina Paxson, college president, wrote in an e mail to alumni. “It’s a tragedy that no college group is ever prepared for.”
