Exclusive | NYU softball player beats sicko who attacked her during jog, breaking her hand in brave fight back
This sicko picked the wrong jogger to grope. A tough-as-nails New York University softball player courageously punched down a creep who grabbed her breasts while she was jogging in Chelsea last week — hitting him so hard she broke her hand. The 5-foot-9 Iowan was running at 4:30 p.m.around 20th Street near Eighth Avenue, a path she’s run almost every day since she moved a year ago to the Big Apple from Bettendorf, a small town about 200 miles from Des Moines.“As I was crossing the street, I noticed him reach out for me, and he grabbed my chest and didn’t let go.
My fight or flight kicked in,” Alexa Very told The Post of the terrifying Sept.19 episode. She chose fight.The sophomore first baseman,19, socked the bald, middle-aged attacker twice in the jaw.
He crumpled to the ground, allowing her to get away. A grand slam.“All I could think at that moment was that I needed to do anything to stop it from going further.
I needed to protect myself,” she recalled.“I don’t think he was expecting me to punch him,” she proudly proclaimed.If the creep said anything during the assault, Very didn’t know, as Toby Keith’s “Should Have Been a Cowboy” was blasting in her AirPods.It took an adrenaline-pumped Very a few minutes to realize her right hand was throbbing and her knuckles bleeding. Very said she called her dad “to ask if I did the right thing, because I can’t hold a bat now.“And he told me that it was the best reason to not be able to hold the bat or throw a softball for a while.”An NYU trainer cleaned Very’s battered hand and referred her to an urgent care, where a doctor found two bone bruises and a hairline fracture.Very’s hand remains in a splint, and — despite her heroics — she’s struggling emotionally.“I find that I’m much more paranoid after what happened,” she said this week, adding she hasn’t been able to sleep through the night since the assault.On Wednesday, a random man stepping in her direction on t...