Watch: High School Track Star Injured During State Final When Opponent Uses Baton Like a Club
During a high school track event in Virginia, Kaelen Tucker was injured when an opponent accidentally struck her in the head with a baton during the 4X200 relay race. Tucker, representing Brookville High School, experienced difficulty merging with her competitor from I.C.Norcom High School, which led to the incident. After being hit, she fell off the track and later reported symptoms consistent with a concussion and potential skull fracture.
despite the seriousness of the situation, Tucker’s mother expressed their disappointment that no one from the opposing team offered apologies or showed concern after the incident. In a family’s video of the event, Tucker appeared shocked and was unable to comprehend the accident fully. Additionally, the athlete who struck Tucker, alaila Everett, defended herself, claiming the incident was unintentional and expressing her frustration over the negative portrayal she received from others following the video’s circulation.The Norcom team was disqualified due to the incident, highlighting the serious nature of the mishap during the championship event.
A Virginia high school track event last Tuesday ended with one athlete injured after she was hit in the head by a baton wielded by an opponent.
Kaelen Tucker was running in the 4X200 race for Brookville High School against I.C. Norcom High School in the Class 3 Track and Field State Finals when a Norcom runner struck her in the head with the baton that runners pass in relay races.
“When you go to the other side of the track, you have to cross into lane one, you have to merge in. As I was coming up on her, she kind of like made me get cut off a little bit, so I backed away,” Tucker said, according to WSLS-TV.
“Then, as we got around the curve, she kept bumping me in my arm. Then finally we got off the curve, I like slowly started passing her, and then that’s when she just hit me with the baton, and I fell off the track,” she said.
The incident was captured on a family video that has been posted to YouTube.
Norcom was disqualified because of the incident, which left Tucker with a throbbing head.
“I could feel like a headache coming up, so I just sat out,” Tucker said. “I recently went to the doctor, and they prescribed me with a concussion and a possible fractured skull.”
“I still can’t believe it. I’m in shock,” she said, according to WSET-TV. “I’m still trying to take it all in, I can’t believe it happened.”
Tamarrow Tucker, Kaelen’s mother, said the opposing team never batted an eye.
“No apologies. No coaches. No athlete. No anything. Even if it was an accident, which I don’t believe it was … nothing,” she said.
“The whole section just gasped,” Tamarrow Tucker said, according to Fox News.
“We had family come from out of town, her godparents were here from Myrtle Beach. Everybody just gasped. When I saw her go down, all I could do is run out of the bleachers. I just knew I had to get to her,” she said.
“She was kind of hysterical because she just couldn’t believe that’s what had happened.”
As video of the event circulated, Alaila Everett, the Norcom athlete who struck Tucker, said she is being unfairly portrayed, according to WAVY-TV.
“Everybody has feelings, so you’re physically hurt, but you’re not thinking of my mental,” Everett said. “It’s like they are going off of one angle.”
“After a couple times of hitting her, my baton got stuck behind her back like this, and it rolled up her back. I lost my balance when I pumped my arms again. She got hit,” Everett explained.
“I know my intentions, and I would never hit someone on purpose,” she said.
“They are assuming my character, calling me ghetto and racial slurs, death threats … all of this off of a nine second video.”
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