Riley Gaines details harrowing situation at SFSU: 'I feared for my life in that moment'

NCAA champion swimmer Riley Gaines discussed the harrowing incident at San Francisco State University on OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich."

Riley Gaines, a former NCAA champion swimmer at Kentucky, opened up Wednesday about the harrowing experience she faced at San Francisco State University after her event was finished.

Gaines, who has been a champion of female athletes’ rights and disagrees with transgender women having the ability to compete against biological women, appeared on OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich" and explained that she welcomes the protesters and differences of opinion but what she experienced at the university was over the top.

She described the situation to Dakich, detailing how things went from tense to extreme.

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"I give my speech and, of course, there’s many protesters in the room. But I welcome protesters. I welcome people with different perspectives," Gaines said. "That’s why I choose to go somewhere like San Francisco. I know a lot of them won’t agree with me but that’s who I want to get in front of. That’s who I want to change their minds to see from my perspective. So there was lots of protesters and it was relatively civil. There was some heckling. But it was good.

Penn's Lia Thomas Kentucky Wildcats swimmer Riley Gaines at the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships on March 18, 2022, in Atlanta. (Brett Davis-USA Today Sports)

"After the event, almost as soon as it finished, it was as if the floodgates opened and I was rushed. People from outside the classroom rushed in. They flickered the lights off. They stormed the podium and they were pushing and shoving and hitting. And I was supposed to meet with the head of campus police a