After recently watching this sports clip at home and in my sports classes, I simply have never seen anything like it. New Mexico Women's Soccer player Elizabeth Lambert looked more like Mike Tyson during her teams 1-0 loss to BYU University. Lambert repeatedly throughout the game for no reason exerted unnecessary physical violence to opposing players on the BYU Women's team. Lambert was seen kicking, tripping, elbowing, and even throwing her opponents down by their hair. Lambert has since been suspended for the season. I believe that this incident should have prompted further discipline. I think Lambert should be permanently banned from NCAA sports and kicked out of her University. Lambert has apologized for her actions but how can one apology make up for so many mistakes made by Lambert during one game. The question I want to know is how long has this been going on? There is no way Elizabeth Lambert just displayed this kind of behavior in only one game. A similar incident happened with Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount when he punched a Boise State player after their loss during the opening week of the season. Blount was suspended the entire season, but recently was reinstated. Blount was provoked by the player he punched and committed far less violence than Lambert. The media gave the Oregon running backs incident much more attention. I believe Lambert's act was far more vicious but since she is a girl in an irrelevant sport the media didn't care as much. Lamberts acts definitely deserve more punishment.
I do think this was just a one time thing for her. I have seen her play in high school and she never showed this kind of behavior before. It was a very important game to see who was going to the Mountian West championship game. It was frustration that they were losing. Also, one girl did elbow her in the gut and so maybe she was being provoked during the game. Blount also should for the first time in his career actions of violence. I think sometimes in the heat of the moment we all do things we will eventually regret doing.
ReplyDeleteI would also be interested to know whether she has engaged in this kind of behavior previously. I was shocked at her behavior, and I believe I would have been shocked if it was a male, too.
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