Social media and playing have made demise threats routine for school athletes | Faculty sports activities

Throughout this yr’s males’s and girls’s NCAA Tournaments, athletes have reported receiving demise threats on social media. After LSU’s loss to Iowa final week, an emotional Angel Reese mentioned she has been receiving such threats since profitable the nationwide title in 2023. Days later, Iowa’s Gabbie Marshall deleted her social media altogether on account of threats hurled her means after she drew a game-clinching foul in opposition to UConn within the Last 4.

On the lads’s aspect, Purdue’s Carson Barrett hit a three-pointer on the finish of his workforce’s victory over Grambling State. That bucket…