Washington women fight on school grounds after girls’ basketball game

A violent confrontation occurred on Washington school grounds between two mothers following a girls’ basketball game last week.

The assault allegedly occurred in a bathroom after the game, when a Washington woman pushed another woman’s head into the wall, according to the Gig Harbor Police report about the incident. It came after the suspect allegedly accused the victim of writing an anonymous letter, which a district staff member presumed was a complaint the district received about the three coaches, who were then put on administrative leave.

A recent story from The News Tribune detailed the confrontation between parents at the girls’ basketball game. Below is an excerpt from The News Tribune article.

A Gig Harbor Police officer responded to a call about the assault at Gig Harbor High School at 8:43 p.m. on Feb. 4, and talked to the victim after the suspect had already left, according to the police report.

The police report gives this account of what the woman told the officer:

As she was leaving the gym after the girls’ basketball game, a woman she didn’t know and hadn’t seen before allegedly “aggressively bumped into” her with her shoulder and said: “I guess anonymous isn’t anonymous.”

The first woman was confused and asked the other to explain, leading the second woman to say after some back and forth: “I know you wrote the anonymous letter,” and “I guess your daughter will not be attending school here next year.”

The second woman left the school, then came back and went into the school bathroom. The first woman followed and took a picture of her with her cellphone. The second woman allegedly then “grabbed (the first woman’s) head and pushed it into the bathroom wall” before leaving the school, the police report said. The first woman reported the incident to school staff.

The victim didn’t appear hurt, and said she didn’t require medical aid, the officer wrote in the report. She told police there were no witnesses to the assault and that no one else was inside the bathroom when it occurred.

The Gig Harbor High School principal, who didn’t see the assault but was on scene, provided “some information on what the female suspect was referring to regarding the anonymous letter,” the report continued.

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The principal “told me that someone wrote a letter to the school district office about the Gig Harbor High School girls’ basketball coaches, who were then placed on administrative leave,” the officer wrote.

The district said in a news release that administrators had opened an internal investigation into the three coaches following a complaint and decided to put them on administrative leave on Jan. 27.

To read the full story from The News Tribune, click here.