Elizabeth Lambert is a soccer player for the New Mexico women's soccer team, believe it or not, who must have had a boost of testosterone before their game against BYU. She was not just playing physical, but punishing her fellow opponents. She repeatedly was caught on camera punching BYU players and even ripping one girl down by her hair. She also had some very dangerous slide tackles as well as kicking the ball into a BYU player's face. This is not even the worst of it though. After committing all of these fouls you would think that she would have been ejected with a red card. This unfortunately did not occur as the game was played throughout with Lambert only receiving a yellow card. This is outrageous to me. How can someone get away with what she did. Granted, she was suspended for the rest of the season, but somehow i feel like she should be punished more. I understand there isn't much else you can do other than suspend her, but what about something more powerful like stripping her of her scholarship. I just think this kind of behavior is absolutely unacceptable in sports. This event made me think different about this young lady and if I was one of those BYU players I would have probably retaliated. There is just no room for that stuff on the playing field.
Max,
ReplyDeleteI wrote about this in my blog as well. I think there is no room for this kind of behavior and Elizabeth Lambert is definitely in the wrong. This morning on Sports Center they were talking about how she is sorry but still can't explain why she committed those acts. She says since she is a girl it is being blown out of proportion and if a male did this it wouldn't be as bad. I think she is wrong because this is far worse than the LeGaratte Blount situation and he was male. I believe she should be kicked out of the University for displaying these acts.
I am not sure I would go so far as Nick suggests--i.e., to kick her out of the University. However, I do believe the she merits a severe suspension. What I do not understand is how the camera was able to catch every one of her miscues, and yet the referees saw none of it?
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