An Atlanta highschool soccer coach has been arrested after bodily assaulting a participant.
The incident occurred throughout Saturday’s soccer sport between Benjamin E. Mays Excessive and Douglas County Excessive in Atlanta, which was reside streamed over the weekend by native station Peachtree TV. The printed confirmed a Benjamin E. Mays assistant coach strike a participant within the abdomen on the sidelines, which resulted within the participant doubling over in ache.
Atlanta News First recognized the assistant as Carl Sledge.
On Tuesday, Atlanta Public Faculties confirmed to USA TODAY Sports activities that Sledge was arrested on easy battery fees following the incident. The college district added that Sledge was a “lay coach,” described by the Georgia High School Association as a “neighborhood coach” that does not work on the faculty or maintain any skilled certifications.
“A lay coach for Mays Excessive College, who is just not a classroom teacher, was taken into police custody after an incident that occurred on the sideline through the faculty’s sport Saturday afternoon towards Douglas County Excessive College,” Atlanta Public Faculties stated in a press release to USA TODAY Sports activities. “Video from the reside broadcast of the sport seems to indicate the lay coach bodily assaulting a participant.”
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Within the video, Sledge might be seen yelling at a participant as Benjamin E. Mays Excessive was up 12-0 over Douglas County on the finish of the primary quarter. The verbal reprimand turned bodily when Sledge struck the participant within the abdomen. Sledge was escorted off the sector by police, based on Atlanta News First.
“The security and well-being of all APS college students stays a excessive precedence for the district and all APS workers are held to the best customary of conduct and professionalism,” Atlanta Public Faculties added.
Benjamin E. Mays Excessive ended up dropping the sport to Douglas County 48-42.
