Video emerges of mom fighting referee in ugly youth basketball scene

Surveillance video has emerged of a parent attacking a referee during a seventh-grade girls’ travel basketball game in Anaconda, Montana, last year. The footage shows Cassie Congdon charge at referee Shawn Wetzel, reach over a barrier and then climb over it to put her hands on him; parents and officials intervened, and the game continued after she was ejected.

Congdon later resigned as head girls’ soccer coach at Flathead High School, while Wetzel was let go from a volunteer assistant coaching role at Butte High. She pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct on 10 September in Deer Lodge County Justice Court. Wetzel has since said he no longer wants to volunteer as a high-school coach, though he continues to officiate youth basketball.