Lindsay Gottlieb: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
The head women's basketball coach at the University of California called out Southwest Airlines on Twitter after a ticket counter employee forced her to "prove" her biracial son was her child.
Lindsay Gottlieb tweeted Monday night, "I'm appalled that after approx 50 times flying with my 1 year old son, ticket counter personnel told me I had to 'prove' that he was my son, despite having his passport.
She said because we have different last name.
My guess is because he has a different skin color.".
Gottlieb, 40, was traveling with her 1-year-old son, Jordan Caleb Martin, and fiance, Patrick Martin, back to Oakland from Denver after a trip to support one of her players at the Team USA basketball trials in Colorado, according to her Twitter account.
She has been the Bears head coach since 2011.
Southwest Airlines apologized for the incident, according to CBS San Francisco.
Here's what you need to know about Lindsay Gottlieb:.
Gottlieb Says the Ticket Counter Employee Asked Her to 'Prove' She Was Her Son's Mother With a Facebook Post.
Lindsay Gottlieb was traveling back to California from Denver after spending the Memorial Day weekend there cheering on Kenzie Forbes, an incoming freshman for the Bears basketball team, at the Team USA U18 trials, according to her Twitter account.
Her fiance, Patrick Martin, and 1-year-old son, Jordan Martin, went with her on the "holiday weekend adventure." While trying to check in for their flight home, Gottlieb says they ran into problems with a Southwest Airlines employee at the ticket counter.
"I'm appalled that after approx 50 times flying with my 1 year old son, ticket counter personnel told me I had to 'prove' that he was my son, despite having his passport.
She said because we have different last name.
My guess is because he has a different skin color," Gottlieb tweeted Monday night.
Gottlieb tweeted that the employee first asked her for proof with a birth certificate.
She said the employee claimed it was "federal law," which Gottlieb says is not true.
Gottlieb said the employee then asked her to "prove" she was Jordan's mother with a "Facebook post." Gottlieb exclaimed in her tweet, "What??" She said another mother in line behind her said she had never been asked for proof about her child despite them having different last names.
Gottlieb said "not shockingly" the other mother was not part of a "mixed race fam.".
Gottlieb tweeted about the incident to Southwest Airlines, saying it was "demeaning and insensitive, not to mention inefficient." She said she and her family would have missed their flight if had not been delayed.
Gottlieb told KPIX_TV she has flown many times on Southwest Airlines with her young son, since that airline was used for the team's travels during the past season, but had never run into a similar issue before.
"We are fine.
It was wild, but, I fear, much more common for people that don't look like me," Gottlieb tweeted.
Gottlieb told KPIX, "I do feel like as a white female, with a position of privilege, and a platform where someone is going to listen, it is my responsibility to say, 'hey, this happened, this isn't okay.
' And maybe somewhere down the line, that helps my son, who is bi-racial and will be for his entire life.
Gottlieb, Who Will be Marrying Her Fiance in September, Gave Birth to Her Son, Jordan, in May 2017.
Gottlieb has been engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Patrick Martin, since March 2017 and they are planning on getting married in September.
Gottlieb said he proposed while they were talking about whether her team would make the NCAA Tournament, which the Bears did.
"He's a big math and analytics nerd, gotten way into the basketball stuff.
He built his own analytical model to crunch the numbers of the bubble teams, and he had us in," she told The Associated Press in 2017.
While talking about tournament possibilities, Martin came over and proposed, saying, "'How bout we do stuff like this for the rest of our life," Gottlieb told the AP.
She responded, "Sounds like a plan.".
Martin is a senior finance manager for a genetic diagnostics company in San Francisco.
Gottlieb talked to FanSided in 2017 about how she handles race as a white coach of a majority black team in a sport where the majority of players are black, while the majority of coaches are white.
She also talked about her perspective of being a white woman with a black fiance and a mixed race son.
"When I first started to coach this Cal team and love them as human beings and see what they go through sometimes, it made me feel more like, 'Wow'.
This isn't an esoteric, far-off concept; these are people I love having to be scared when they walk around," she told FanSided.
"Of course it's more personal when it comes to your own flesh and blood, but I think it's a good kind of test because isn't that how we are supposed to feel about everybody? Aren't you supposed to love your neighbor and brother the same? So while me having a fiancé and a son, sure it's more personal, but it's also a reminder that you're supposed to care that much about your neighbor and I try to always see it in that context.".
Gottlieb has talked about balancing being a new mother and a basketball coach of a Division I program.
"The job to me is like a family, a lifestyle job, and I've always meant that and believed it," Gottlieb told The Associated Press in October 2017.
"But now being able to integrate Jordan kind of for me brings a new dimension to it.
Obviously I feel fortunate to have worked to be in a position to be the boss, where I can do it this way.
And also to be able to have supportive administration and financially be able to do the nanny so I can do it the way that I want to and not really sacrifice.
He won't be here every day forever but with the feeding now it makes it easier.
At some point it might be he comes by two days a week or three days a week, or maybe he comes by and pops into practice and then goes to watch an Olympian in the pool or goes to a class in Berkeley, a kiddie class.
It's so cool the opportunities for him.".
Gottlieb added, "It was really important to me that the players see that I'm not going to be any different as a coach.
I'm going to be accessible to them still.
I'm going to be hard working and dedicated, I'm just going to do it while also being a mom.
Whether or not they're conscious of that message I think it's important for them to see it and maybe 10 years down the road when one of them is thinking about children they feel like, 'OK, I can do this.".
Martin told the San Francisco Chronicle in January 2018, "Linds is all-in on basketball; she breathes it.
She still has that same intensity and approach to the game and her job, but I would say Jordan has added a new dimension to her life.".
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