A video posted to social media has gone viral, showing a student harassing a basketball coach after a game.
The Baldwin boys’ basketball team played host to South Allegheny on Thursday night at home.
The Fighting Highlanders beat the Gladiators 59-52 in the 5A vs. 3A non-conference matchup.
After the game, an unnamed student is seen recording himself on video while South Allegheny coach Tony DiCenzo walks by in a hallway.
The student holding the camera up to himself asks the coach, as he walks away, “What do you choke on more? D*** or basketball games,” the reported student says. “Another p**** school falls to Baldwin.”
The video posted by KDKA Radio’s Colin Dunlap appears to be from a student-run account called highlander-barstool.
Baldwin Superintendent Dr. Randal Lutz says there will be consequences for the student’s actions.
Full Statement:
An incident occurred following a varsity boys basketball game during which Baldwin High School hosted South Allegheny involving a student spectator recording and sharing inappropriate commentary.
This behavior is unacceptable and the student is facing the full disciplinary consequences of our established district policies. Additionally, we will take this opportunity to re-educate our school communities about responsibility concerning social media and behavior.
What’s particularly disappointing about the incident is that it was an exceptional game, where the student athletes and coaches for both teams demonstrated athletic excellence, sportsmanship and class both on and off the court. We deeply regret the negative tone this incident cast on the event and wish to commend South Allegheny’s Coach DiCenzo for responding with grace and professionalism, setting a powerful example for everyone who witnessed the interaction.
Dunlap commented on the video saying, “We need to bring back respecting adults. We also need to bring back not filming everything for clicks, for likes, for attention.”
Dunlap adds when he was younger there was similar behavior, but it was different.
“We were all punk kids, me included, but you know what we did, we screwed with other kids,” said Dunlap. “We never went up to adults and embarrassed them and then disseminated it on platforms and blasted it out for everybody to see because we had a fear that adult might reach out and choke us, or call our parents, or choke us and then call our parents. That would really happen.”