FLORIDA SOFTBALL PLAYER SHOOTS SELF OVER TRYOUT.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Upset over her poor tryout for a college softball College softball is softball as played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education, predominantly in the United States. College softball is played by women at the intercollegiate level, whereas college baseball is played by men. scholarship, a 17-year-old high school student shot herself in the head during a team practice as her coach pleaded with her to drop the gun. Melissa Chambliss remained in critical condition Friday, a day after she shot herself in front of two dozen teammates at First Coast High School. Chambliss, a starter on the varsity softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' team was talking with coach Vicky Rogers about arranging another college tryout and ways to improve her game, Principal Hardy Fletcher said. The two started to argue, then Chambliss pulled a revolver revolver: see small arms. revolver Pistol with a revolving cylinder that provides multishot action. Some early versions, known as pepperboxes, had several barrels, but as early as the 17th century pistols were being made with a revolving chamber to from the waistband of her uniform. Police said she first pointed it at Rogers and threatened to shoot her. She then turned the gun on herself as other students backed away and Rogers tried to talk her out of pulling the trigger. Police said Chambliss was upset because she performed poorly in a recent tryout for a scholarship to Santa Fe Community College
Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) is a two-year community college located in New Mexico, whose main campus is on 366 acres (148 hectares) just southwest of in Gainesville. |
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