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 capturing at her alma mater, Brown College.
“It’s the weapons,” Gottlieb mentioned as she started a post-game information convention on the Ivy League faculty. “It doesn’t should be this manner.”
Gottlieb mentioned she acquired again to the locker room Saturday after the USC Trojans’ dwelling recreation with No. 1 UConn Huskies and had “one million textual content messages” from former Brown teammates. A gunman had opened hearth throughout last exams, killing two college students and injuring 9 others.
“We’re the one nation that lives this manner,” Gottlieb mentioned, her voice shaking as she famous that she knew individuals who have kids at Brown. “Dad and mom shouldn’t need to be anxious 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.
Considered one of her former teammates, she mentioned, 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 happening there.”
Oscar Perez, the Windfall police chief, mentioned Sunday that an individual of curiosity in his 20s was in custody. No expenses have been filed, he mentioned, noting “we’re within the means of accumulating proof.”
On Saturday, college students and school spent the evening on lockdown, trapped inside school rooms and dorms whereas regulation 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 mentioned earlier than she assessed her workforce’s recreation towards the Huskies. “And that’s that. It’s extra vital 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 electronic mail to alumni. “It’s a tragedy that no college group is ever prepared for.”
