The coach of a high school women’s basketball team from a community at Adirondacks in New York was fired after pulling a player’s ponytail at the end of a state -run game on Friday, the school district confirmed.
Social media videos and local television news shows that an elderly man pulling the hair of a frustrated player, speaking with emphasis on his one, while another player tries to separate the two.
The hair pull occurred after the girl’s team for the central school area of Northville lost to Lafargeville’s central school district in the New York New York Championship game.
The Northville area, located in Fulton County about 60 miles northwest of Albany and the big Lake Sacandaga, said it was “deeply disturbed” by the behavior of its coach and that the “person will no longer be a coach” for the area.
The statement did not say that the coach had been fired, but Sarah Chancey, an inspector in the area, said on a telephone interview on Saturday that “service with the area with the area has ended”.
Dr. Chancey refused to confirm the identity of the coach or the player.
According to Maxpreps, a site watching high school sports lists, the team’s coach is Jim Zullo. The player appears to be a senior senior employee based on the jersey number.
A contact for Mr Zullo was not immediately accessible.
Mr Zullo told News10 ABC that before the episode, the player had directed an executive to him when he ordered him to tighten his hands with the opposing team.
Alyssa Leroux, 31, Watertown, New York, was watching the game with her family on Friday. The placement of the team by Lafargeville, which is about 90 miles north of Syracuse, in the league was a “big case” in the community, he said.
At the end of the game, as Northville’s six -point loss ended, he thought he saw something strange. Then she got a text from a friend who asked her if she “saw that the coach was pulling the girl’s hair.”
Repeats the show and confirmed it. Aghast, Ms Leroux wanted to draw attention to her. He got a video from the television showing the episode and posted it on Facebook.
Her video has so far won 500 reactions – most of which are angry emojis – and nearly 900 shares. It was also presented in local news reports
“I just felt terrible for the girl,” Mrs Leroux said. “I mean she just played her heart.”
“You can’t do such things when you are older man with a young child,” he added.
