She made the trip home to Minnesota just more than year after her final high school softball game in the state ended in a championship defeat to a transgender pitcher, who also hit a double to help win the game.Kotzmacher, who is set to play for Colorado Christian this upcoming year, stood alongside Riley Gaines, Michelle Tafoya and Jennifer Sey, as they led the the third rally in support of Cunningham in the span of one week.Counterprotesters had appeared the previous two rallies for Cunningham.
But Sunday saw a different degree of agitation compared to the first two.SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM RALLY ROCKS WNBA GAME AS 'SAVE WOMEN'S SPORTS' ACTIVISTS FACE COUNTERPROTESTSophie Cunningham supporters rally outside the Target Center in Minneapolis on Sunday, Aug.2, 2026.
(Courtesy of Kendall Kotzmacher)Kotzmacher was caught right in the middle of it.A pro-transgender protester at the rally allegedly approached with a megaphone and unleashed insults at the group.One remark was directed at Kotzmacher in front of her mother and sister."He had a megaphone and was just yelling everything about how awful people we are," Kotzmacher told Fox News Digital.
"At one point, I got told that I should’ve been aborted when I was younger."Kotzmacher said she had previously received hostile messages online after speaking publicly about competing against a transgender athlete.Sunday marked the first time she encountered that level of hostility in person.ZERO BS.
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DOWNLOAD NOW!"I’ve gotten so many hate texts, death threats, people commenting on my posts, all of that stuff," she said."So at this point, I’m kind of used to it, but it was definitely weird for them to be able to hear it and be like, ‘Oh, people are actually like this.
Someone has enough to say this out loud to a person.’"They have no rebuttal to what we’re standing for," she added."They have nothing to go against what we’re trying to say, and so they just go back ...