The Virginia high school runner was caught on video of her hitting an opponent with the baton at last week's indoor athletics championship.
However, the runner in question said the hit was an accident.
'There are no apology. There is no coach. There are no athletes. There's nothing. Even if it was an accident, I don't believe it was… nothing. ”
You can view the video here of the incident.
Karen Tucker, a junior at Brookville High School in Lynchburg, set a new tournament record last Monday with a 55 metre dash. WSET-TV reported. On Tuesday, she was the second leg of the team in the 4x200m relay final, the station said.
During the race, Tucker handed her opponent from IC Norcom High School in Portsmouth, and Wset said Tucker felt a blow in the back of her head. The station says the strike came from the baton held by Norcom Sprinter, and the hits removed Tucker from the surface of the track and from the race.
The judge disqualified “contact interference” to the IC Norcom relay team, Wset said.
Tucker's mother, Tamarow, rushed to her daughter's side, as was the case with medical staff, the station said. However, the mom told WSET that neither the IC NORCOM coach nor the runner who attacked her daughter came in to explain or apologize.
“There are no apology. There are no coaches. There are no athletes. There are none,” her mother told the station. “Even if it was an accident, I don't think it was… nothing.”
WSET said doctors are treating Tucker for a concussion and a fracture of a skull.
“I still can't believe it. I'm in shock,” Tucker told the station while resting at her Campbell County home with her family. “I'm still trying to take it all in. I can't believe it happened.”
Tucker's mother told Wset that she spoke on the phone in the Virginia High School League. VHSL said the station “the actions taken by the tournament directors are appropriate and correct,” and that it was still reviewing the situation and calling it “when it involves the safety of athletes, especially in the sport.”
Tucker added to WSET that he not only reached out to the parents of the runners who attacked his daughter, but also to the athletic director of IC Norcom, who apologized on behalf of the student.
Tucker told the station he hopes he's ready for outdoor track season.
You can view Wset's video report on the incident here.
The other side of the story
The runner who hit the tucker spoke Wavy TVHe said that the hit in the baton was an accident.
Alaila Everett – senior at IC Norcom High School in Portsmouth – has been added to the station regarding people watching viral video “They're off one angle.”
The Tear Runner also told Wavy:
“I assume they call my character, me a ghetto, a racist slander, a death threat. All of this is for the nine-second video.”
The station said Everett and Tucker almost collided while rounding the track's curve. Everett said, “After hitting her several times, my baton stuck behind her back like this, which wrapped her back up.
Everett emphasized to the station, “I know my intentions and I will never hit anyone on purpose.”
Everett's mother, Zeketa Cost, told Wavy “I didn't have to watch the first video, the second video, or the tenth video. I'm 100% aware that she wouldn't do that to anyone.”
Vincent Pew, a former Citywide athletics director at Portsmouth Public Schools, added to the station that Turner, who was on the outside of the truck, was running closely to Everett, who was on the inside of the truck.
“If a person appeared outside, they would now be a perfect walk before me before cutting in front of me,” Pugh pointed out in a wave.
Regarding the apology Tucker wanted, Everett told Wavy that he had made efforts to get in touch with Tucker, but Tucker blocked her on social media.
Additionally, Wavey said the Everett family was accompanied by court documents and Tucker wanted a protective order.
“It doesn't seem right for this to happen, and now we have to go to a city three hours away where everyone already hates our courage,” Father Genoa Everett told the station.
“I assume they call my character, me a ghetto, a racist slander, a death threat. This is all about this for the 9-second video,” Alaila Everett added to Wavy.
You can watch Wavy's interview with the Everett family here.
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