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Video Released of Parent Assaulting Montana Referee at Youth Basketball Tournament
Congdon admitted to misdemeanor disorderly conduct after the incident prompted a school investigation and her resignation as Flathead High School girls soccer coach.
- On Wednesday, surveillance video was released showing parent Cassie Congdon charging and assaulting referee Shawn Wetzel at the December 6, 2025, Santa Slammer Tournament in Anaconda.
- Congdon, who served as head girls' soccer coach at Flathead High School, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct in Deer Lodge County Justice Court on September 10, 2026.
- Footage shows Congdon charging Wetzel, who used his 6-foot-8 height to maintain distance. Wetzel recounted, "She just kept hitting, swinging... when she spit on me... that was the worst part."
- Kalispell Public Schools accepted Congdon's resignation shortly after the incident, while Wetzel, son of late Montana basketball legend Don Wetzel, continues to officiate youth basketball games.
- The Butte School District dismissed Wetzel from his volunteer assistant coaching position at Butte High following an internal investigation, though officials declined to provide further comment on the decision.
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Soccer Karen Goes Ballistic And Jumps Railing To Attack Referee At Seventh-Grade Girls Basketball Game In Montana
A Montana high school soccer coach lost her job, and her cool, after vaulting a gym railing and launching a wild physical attack on a referee during a seventh-grade girls' travel basketball game. Cassie Congdon, then the head girls soccer coach at Flathead High School in Kalispell, charged referee Shawn Wetzel during the Santa Slammer Tournament at Memorial Gym in Anaconda on Dec. 6, 2025. Surveillance video recently released shows Congdon emerg…
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