A suspended University of Illinois softball player has apologized for damaging a menorah at the school's Jewish student center.
Ruby Rivera wrote a Champaign newspaper a letter saying she wants to "deeply apologize" and that there was "at no point any disrespect or malice meant towards any community or religion."
Rivera is indefinitely suspended from the team.
She is to appear in court on a tentative charge of criminal damage to property later this month.
No official charges have been filed.
Rivera wrote that the incident happened during "a night out."
She said she is "willing to pay the cost for the damages that I caused."
ne arm of the aluminum menorah at the Chabad Jewish Center was found broken February 7th.