Virginia High School Track and Field Runner, who was seen violently to smash her baton stick in an opponent’s head during a baton, has talked about the setback she received while claiming the incident was an accident.
IC Norcom High School Senior Alaila Everett gave opponent Brookville Junior Kaelen Tucker a concussion and possible skull fracture as she beat her head with the baton at an event on Tuesday. Everett claims the attack took place because she lost her balance and her baton stuck “firmly” behind her opponent’s head.
“After a few times hit her, my baton housing was firmly behind her back like this, and it rolled up her back. I lost balance when I pumped my arms again. She was hit,” Everett said in an interview with wavy. “I know my intentions and I would never hit someone on purpose,”
Everett also said that although she caused physical pain to tucker, there is not enough empathy for Everet’s own “mental” influence.
“Everyone has feelings so you are physically wounded, but you don’t think about my mental,” Everett said. “They assume my character, calling me ghetto and racial sleds, death threats … all this out of a nine-second video.”
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Everett’s mother, Zeketa Cost, told Wavy that she also doesn’t think her daughter did it on purpose.
“I didn’t have to watch a first video, second video or tenth video. I know 100%that she would never do it against nobody,” Cost said.
The family claimed that they have been preached to court papers over the incident and that Everett has tried to apologize for Tucker, but the concussed opponent has blocked Everett on social media.
Tucker’s mother, Tamarrow Tucker, Wets ABC 13 Thursday told them they had not received an apology.
“My whole thing was no excuse,” Tamarrow said. “No coaches, no athlete, none
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Starting blocks and a relay stick at the 120. Penn Relays on Franklin Field. (Kirby Lee -usa Today Sports)
Tucker told about the incident and said the whole section gasped when they saw the repeated baton pass.
“The whole section just gasped,” Tucker told WSET ABC 13 about them around her in the bleaching machines. “We had family come out of town, her sponsors were here from Myrtle Beach. Everyone gasped just. When I saw her going down, all I could do was running out of bleaching machines. I just knew I had to come to her.
“She was a little hysterical because she just couldn’t think that was what had happened.”
Tucker said a medicine was already with her daughter when she got down on the field.
Everett and his entire team were disqualified for “contact interference.”
Vincent Pugh, former urban athletic director at Portsmouth Public Schools, questioned the validity of the disability and argued for a play-by-play showed Tucker ran close to Everett.

Baton held by Kiersten Duncan from LSU in the starting blocks of the 87th Clyde Littlefield Texas relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium. (Kirby Lee -usa Today Sports)
“If a person comes on the outside, they became a full step ahead of me before they can cut in front of me,” Pugh told Wavy.
Virginia High School League (VHSL) issued a statement to Pakinomist Digital on the case.
“VHSL does not comment on individuals or disciplinary actions because of Ferpa,” reads the league’s statement. “The actions taken by the meeting director to disqualify the runner were appropriate and correct. We are thoroughly reviewing all cases like this involving player security with the participating schools. The VHSL membership has always made it a priority to give student athletes a safe environment for competition.”