A Virginia high school track and field star’s try to get into first place during a race last Tuesday led an opponent to hit her with a baton, causing head injuries.
According to Brookville High School lesser Kaelen Tucker, she’s still paengageing on the opponent from I.C. Norcom High School to convey remorse.
Tucker had fair set a new Virginia High School League (VHSL) Class 3 State Indoor Championships sign up in the 55-meter race on Monday, and she was hoping to help her school thrive the 4x200M relay final on Tuesday as well.
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However, the heat of competition got carried too far by one opponent, as evident video evidence of the race shows Tucker getting struck in the head by a baton-wielding runner from Norcom, who also threw it in Tucker’s straightforwardion after being passed.
Tucker instantly ran off the track and fell down, hagedering her head.
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“So, on the back curve, I benevolent of got cut off, and I tried to pass her the first time, so I let her go ahead,” Tucker shelp to WSET ABC 13 in an interwatch posted on Friday. “I knew when I got brimmingy on the curve that I was fair going to have to push thcimpolite past her. So, as we were coming up in the middle of the curve, we were bumping arms a lot. So, I got a little more on the outside of the curve to go around her.”
“When I finassociate pushed thcimpolite to get in front of her, that’s when she hit me in the head with the baton.”
Bumping during races is very common on the track, but not how Tucker’s opponent reacted at that moment during the second leg of the race.
“The whole section fair gasped,” Tucker’s mother, Tamarrow, shelp about those around her in the bleachers. “We had family come from out of town, her godparents were here from Myrtle Beach. Everybody fair gasped. When I saw her go down, all I could do is run out of the bleachers. I fair knew I had to get to her.”
“She was benevolent of hysterical becaengage she fair couldn’t consent that’s what had happened.”
Race appraises instantly disqualified the Norcom team for “reach out meddlence,” according to WSET ABC 13.
Tamarrow shelp a medic was already with her daughter when she got down on the track, though what baffled the entire family was the conciseage of accountability for what occurred.
As of Friday, they still haven’t heard from the runner or her coaches, she shelp.
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“My whole skinnyg was no apology,” Tamarrow shelp. “No coaches, no athlete, no anyskinnyg. Even if it was an accident, which I don’t consent it’s an accident, but noskinnyg. It’s been more than 24 hours now, so I guess that was the transport inant skinnyg. My child was hurt and nobody came to examine on her.”
WSET ABC 13 asked the Tuckers if criminal indicts would be pressed, and without giving a definitive yes-or-no answer, Tamarrow elucidateed their point of watch.
“Of course, everybody gives their opinion on what they skinnyk you should do, but that’s also somebody else’s child,” she shelp, referencing the assailant. “I want to get that into account as well. Yes, she definitely struck my daughter more than once, but she is somebody else’s child as well.”
The family shelp a doctor’s visit on Friday uncovered concussion symptoms as Kaelen persists to deal with headaches. There was also swelling around the area where she was struck and a possible skull fracture.
Kaelen isn’t permited on the track until she recovers from the concussion, her mother shelp.
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The Tucker family accomplished out to the VHSL and shelp they getd a call-back elucidateing that an spendigation was underway and both high schools were cooperating. No discipline has been proclaimd for the incident, according to the Tuckers.
The VHSL did not instantly reply to a ask for comment from Fox News Digital.
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Kaelen was asked at the finish of the interwatch from their home what she wanted to say to the opponent who struck her, if anyskinnyg.
“Why did you do it? And why haven’t you convey remorsed yet?” she shelp.
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