Today’s guest is the unofficial Mayor of Montana.
Shawn Wetzel made his first appearance on the ButteCast in January of 2023. Today we are checking back in with him as he looks for a little redemption.
Wetz was attacked by a mother of a seventh-grade basketball player during the Santa Slammer travel tournament last December in Anaconda. Not only did this mother, who is the wife of a coach for a Kalispell team, attack Shawn on the court, she sent a letter to the tournament director, Butte High School and Butte School District No. 1 to attack his character.
Less than a week after the attack, the school district told then Butte High boys’ basketball coach Matt Luedtke that Wetz would not be approved to serve as a volunteer assistant coach for the Bulldogs. He had worked with Luedtke in each of his previous six seasons at Butte High.
Now, we finally have the surveillance video from the incident in Memorial Gym in Anaconda, and that video shows that Wetz was telling the truth the whole time. The aggressor, who was charged in the incident, was not.
Check out the video below.
Today, I met with Wetz to talk about the incident and how he felt in the weeks and months that followed. Listen in as he talks about missing the basketball season and how he felt people looked at him after news broke of the attack.
Listen in to hear that he feels vindicated now that the video is out.
Today’s episode is presented by Casagranda’s Steakhouse. Eat where the locals eat.
