Former US Olympian Kim Glass has released a video of her wounded face and disclosed that a homeless man threw a metal object at her in downtown Los Angeles and injured her face.
According to Kim via TPS;
Kim Glass said she was leaving lunch with a friend over the weekend when a man ran up out of nowhere and threw a metal object at her, believed to be a pipe, that then hit her face.
A group of strangers came to her aid until paramedics arrived while others held down the man who allegedly attacked her until police got to the scene.
Glass ended up posting a video on social media after the attack occurred.
“Guys, just be safe out there… I wasn’t ready for it and there’s a lot of mentally ill people on these streets right now,” she said in the video.
Glass won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics on the U.S.A. women’s indoor volleyball team. She’s also done some modeling in her career, once appearing in a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
It isn’t safe out here in these streets for anyone.
Here is more about Glass.
Glass, a three-time American Volleyball Coaches Association All-American and four-time All-Pac-10 pick, is Arizona’s career leader in kills with 2,151 and ranks third all-time in the Pac-10 in the same category. She averaged 5.27 kills, 2.84 digs, 0.70 blocks and 0.40 aces per game for the Wildcats. For her career, Glass had double-digit kills in 105 of her 115 matches played, along with 20 or more kills 54 times en route to a school-record 5.27 kills per game average. She holds the Arizona school record with 162 aces, and is third in career digs with 1,158. Glass provided 77 block solos, which ranks eighth all-time for the Wildcats.
In 2002, she was an AVCA Second Team All-American and the National Freshman of the Year. In 2003, she was a Third Team All-American. As a senior in 2005, Glass was selected AVCA All-America First-Team in leading Arizona to a fourth overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, where they got to the regional final.
Kim Glass became the first Wildcat and the fourth player in Pac-10 history to record 2,000 kills.
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