I [24m] have been dating a very cool girl [27f] for about 3 months. I went to her club beach volley ball game and she screamed and cursed at teammate, refs, other team. Is this a red flag or just competitive spirit?

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So background on this, I've been seeing "Mandy" for about 3 months. She is a very cool, very smart with a really good job and working her way up in her company. It also helps that she is by far the best looking girl I've ever been with. I really, really like her.

I know that Mandy played volleyball on a scholarship in college and even did some post college things like pro beach volley ball and I don't know for sure but she may have tried out for both the regular and beach volleyball national teams. I'm a huge sports fan but I honestly don't know enough about volleyball to know exactly how it works but I know she was/is very good.

She's in a local club beach volley ball league and last night for the first time she invited me to come watch. She forewarned me before the game that she turns into a different person on the court. I had no idea it would be as bad as it was. Think Walter Sobchak when Smokey crossed the foul line...except for an entire game. I mean she screamed at the other team and did like the old "in your face" thing, told them they would lose teeth to her spike, etc... The ref's were mostly high school kids and she cursed at them, she told her teammate how stupid he was and even said "I'm going to bury you in the this f---- sand if you don't get your head in this." She was even warned by the owners of the complex that they had already warned her this season and any more "conversations" would result in she being banned from playing. That caused her to cut out the cursing but she was still overly amped up for what seemed just like a normal weeknight volley ball game to most people.

So basically, with the picture I've painted here...is this a massive red flag or is this just her competitive nature showing itself?

She is ordinally very sweet to me, and other than some "joy" she got out of firing an employee a few weeks ago, the volley ball outburst was totally out of character or her.

Red flag or just competitive?

tl;dr: the girl I've been dating was out of control at her club beach volleyball game last night, so much so that she had to be warned by the owners of the complex that she could be banned. Is this a red flag or just here competitive nature coming through?