{"id":26643,"date":"2004-09-14T21:13:04","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T02:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2004\/09\/14\/anchorage-captain-suspended-after-allegedly-punching-teammate\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:55:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:55:44","slug":"anchorage-captain-suspended-after-allegedly-punching-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2004\/09\/14\/anchorage-captain-suspended-after-allegedly-punching-teammate\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchorage Captain Suspended After Allegedly Punching Teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"
Alaska-Anchorage captain Lee Green has been suspended indefinitely by the team after being arrested on a second-degree assault charge Sunday for allegedy punching teammate Brett Arcand-Kootenay in the team’s locker room.<\/p>\n
Arcand-Kootenay had surgery Monday to repair a broken jaw after the incident, which, according to police reports cited by the Anchorage Daily News<\/i> was tied to an argument about a training run.<\/p>\n
Green, 22, a senior defenseman who is in his second season as the Seawolves’ captain, made an initial court appearance on Monday, the newspaper reported, but remained jailed pending another appearance Tuesday and a bail hearing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
According to a police report, Arcand-Kootenay, a 21-year-old sophomore, and Green were involved in a dispute at 9 a.m. Sunday. The report, as quoted by the Daily News<\/i> said: <\/p>\n
“According to Arcand-Kootenay, Green demanded to know where Arcand-Kootenay had been that morning when he was supposed to have shown for an early morning team run. Arcand-Kootenay said that before he could respond, Green ‘sucker punched’ him in the jaw, knocking him to the ground. Once on the ground, Green again struck Arcand-Kootenay in the back.'”<\/p>\n
Arcand-Kootenay told police he arrived for the training but left when Green wasn’t there, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n
When police called Green, he said he hit Arcand-Kootenay because he wanted to “make a point,” according to the charges. Green said he was “sick of” his teammate because he was “causing problems” for the team, the charges read.<\/p>\n
UAA athletic director Steve Cobb announced Green’s suspension Monday. The school is investigating the incident and will make a decision on Green’s future “at an appropriate time in the near future,” a statement released by the school read.<\/p>\n
“We are disturbed that such a regrettable incident has occurred between two of our student-athletes,” Cobb said. “I have been in communication with the families of both players, and everyone involved is concerned with the interests of both young men.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alaska-Anchorage captain Lee Green has been suspended indefinitely by the team after being arrested on a second-degree assault charge Sunday for allegedy punching teammate Brett Arcand-Kootenay in the team’s locker room. Arcand-Kootenay had surgery Monday to repair a broken jaw after the incident, which, according to police reports cited by the Anchorage Daily News was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n