FILE – California guard Mikayla Cowling (3) drives to the ring towards Virginia guard Brianna Tinsley (1) and Lisa Jablonowski (14) in the course of the first half of a first-round sport within the NCAA girls’s faculty basketball event March 16, 2018, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photograph/Sean Rayford, File)
WARSAW, Poland — An American basketball participant with knowledgeable Polish girls’s membership was crushed and left with a head damage midweek with the attacker later detained, based on officers and experiences in Polish media on Sunday.
Mikayla Cowling, who performs for VBW Arka Gdynia, was attacked late Wednesday in a music membership in Gdansk, a metropolis in northern Poland, based on the RMF FM broadcaster, which additionally quoted the membership saying the “brutal beating” left her with a fractured eye socket, amongst different accidents.
Gdansk is a neighboring metropolis to Gdynia on the Baltic coast.
“I’m outraged that such a shameful state of affairs has occurred. Violence and aggression are unacceptable and should be opposed,” Gdynia Mayor Wojciech Szczurek mentioned Sunday on X, the platform previously often called Twitter. “Thankfully, the police shortly caught the attacker. We want the participant good well being!”
The assault occurred after a EuroCup girls’s match the place the Gdynia crew defeated rivals from Switzerland, BCF Elfic Fribourg, 77-47. Cowling, who performed her faculty basketball at Cal, scored 7 factors.
The president of the Gdynia membership, Boguslaw Witkowski, mentioned in an interview with the Polish state information company PAP that the participant was attacked close to the ladies’s restroom by a safety guard.
Cowling, 27, was hit a number of instances on the pinnacle, and when she fell, she was additionally kicked. Essentially the most severe damage was to her face and the athlete has a fractured orbital bone, he mentioned. He added that she is at house below statement and can have extra checks subsequent week.
PAP additionally quoted a police spokesperson who mentioned the attacker, a 48-year-old man, was arrested on Friday.
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