Track Meet Baton Incident

Imagine you are just doing your track meet and you pass a girl, thinking nothing of it, feeling good and thinking you might win and that when she just starts to hurt you with her baton.  That happened with Alaila Everett and Kaelen Trucker. At a high school track meet in Virginia, 11th grader Kaelen Tucker, who goes to Brookville High School, and 12th grader Alaila Everett, who goes to I.C. Norcom High School, first meet. A baton is a short stick or tube that is passed from runner to runner in a relay race. So during this race, it was going normally, the runner would run and pass the stick to their teammate, and that was when the stick got passed to Alaila Everett and Kaelen Tucker. At first, Everett was in front of Tucker, but then Tucker passed her, putting her in the lead. Alaila didn’t like it, so she started to hit her with the baton, trying to make her fall, so she could go to the front. According to NBC News, both girls spoke to the NBC affiliates WSLS of Roanoke and WAVY of Norfolk to speak on what happened. Tucker had said, “Then finally we got off the curve, I, like, started passing her and then that’s when she just hit me with the baton and I fell off the track.”  But Everett told them a different story, she said that it was an accident, saying that her baton got stuck behind her back, and she lost her balance and when she pumped her arms,Tucker got hit. Also according to WSLS, Tucker was diagnosed with a concussion and Tucker’s parents said that Everett had never checked on their daughter after the race concluded. But Everett added when she found Tucker, she try to talk to her on instagram, but she found out she was blocked.