Former University of Wisconsin running back Montee Ball will spend 60 days in jail after pleading guilty Friday to the misdemeanor battery and two disorderly conduct charges that resulted from his role in two domestic abuse incidents that occurred earlier this year.
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Ball was accused of throwing his girlfriend at a Madison hotel on February 5. About a month later, a previous girlfriend told police she had been assaulted by Ball in 2014.
Ball is now receiving alcohol counseling and will also undergo a certified domestic abuse treatment program.
Police said in the February incident the woman’s leg hit the corner of a table, causing a cut that required stitches.
“I know that you’ve received trophies and scholarships for pounding people on the gridiron”, Dane County Circuit judge William E. Hanrahan said in sentencing Ball, according to the Journal Sentinel.
Former Bronco Montee Ball was arrested on a charge of substantial battery.
He appeared Friday in Dane County Court.
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The Badgers’ all-time leader in touchdowns scored will be allowed work-release during his two consecutive 30-day sentences which will be followed by probation. He was cut at the end of the 2015 preseason and didn’t play an National Football League regular-season game last season.
