[VIDEO] American Cheerleader Breaks Down in Tears at University Basketball Game, Causing Distress Across Nation

She was a complete stranger a few hours ago. But this Friday, March 17, all of America and part of the rest of the planet now knows his face, full of emotion, and his name. Ashlyn Whimpey.

The scene takes place in Sacramento, California, theater this year of the March Madness translate: “the madness of March”. This is the final tournament of the American basketball championship. A competition in which the elite of young players participate, promised for some to a great NBA future.

During the opening day, this Friday, a meeting opposed the Aggies of Utah to the Missouri Tigers. And it was the players from Missouri who won this meeting.

In the final moments of the match, the cameras of the TNT (Turner Network Television) channel then focused, for several seconds, on a young cheerleader and supporter of the Utah Aggies team, while the team in question was trailing by 12 points.

His face, full of emotion, strongly touched the viewers.

who made it widely known on social networks. “I felt bad” wrote some; while another protested “Seriously, TNT?”

felt bad when camera kept showing her, probably her last game as a cheerleader love how these people put their hearts into the game man

— degen dani (@degendani0) March 17, 2023

Seriously, TNT? Highlighting a crying cheerleader?

— USU Blue Man (@BigBlueDart) March 16, 2023

The Missouri Tigers won, in the end, 76-65. The emotion of the young girl was widely broadcast on social networks during the day this Friday, the university basketball championship – and mainly the finals – is very popular across the Atlantic and achieves very strong audiences.

Faced with this wave of unexpected visibility, Ashlyn Whimpey reacted a few hours later on her Instagram account: “Now I’m a meme” she laughed.