A Pennsylvania youth basketball coach and her 70-year-old father were arrested for attacking an opposing team’s coach and his wife in front of the couple’s terrified young daughter, cops said.
Brittany Ortiz, 38, and her father, William Stanley, were cuffed and hit with multiple charges after a basketball game at the Holy Child School at Rosemont, a Catholic elementary school, erupted into chaos on Feb. 1, according to Lower Merion Police.
Ortiz, an assistant coach of one of the teams, allegedly began shouting and cursing during the game between 7- and 8-year-old players in the Malvern Basketball League, which is not associated with the Catholic school, NBC10 reported.
Stanley also allegedly began arguing with the opposing team’s coach, according to an affidavit of probable cause obtained by the outlet.
After the game, Ortiz continued arguing with the other coach and his wife near the entrance to the gym — then grabbed the other coach’s wife by her hair and slammed her to the ground, striking her head against the floor, a criminal complaint alleged.
As the other team’s coach tried to stop Ortiz’s alleged rampage, Stanley struck him in the head. Ortiz then kicked the coach in the inner thigh while trying to kick him in the groin, investigators told the outlet.
The other coach was also holding his 3-year-old daughter as the father-daughter duo allegedly attacked him — causing her to become hysterical and suffer a bruise on her leg, a criminal complaint detailed.
The victimized coach suffered bruising to his inner thigh while his wife lost clumps of her hair, suffered a concussion, and got a contusion on her scalp during the melee, the complaint continued.
Ortiz was charged with assault on a sports official, simple assault, and recklessly endangering another person, disorderly conduct, and harassment. She was ordered held on $10,000 bail, according to court records obtained by The Post.
Lower Merion Township Police have also requested charges against Stanley, and the alleged irate dad later surrendered himself to police, the outlet reported.
“My client was taken to the hospital with broken bones and injury to the head,” Stanley’s attorney, Nathan Schadler, told the outlet.
“We will be doing our own investigation and speaking to people who were there. My client asserts his innocence, and it was my client’s family who called 911 and asked the police to show up in this matter.”
