A secondary school in Virginia The attempt by Track and Field Star to come to first place during a race last Tuesday led an opponent to hit her with a stick, which caused head injuries.
According to Brookville High School Junior Kaelen Tucker, she is still waiting for the opponent of IC Norcom High School to apologize.
Tucker had just had a new Virginia High School League (VHSL) Class 3 State Indoor Championships Record in the 55-meter race established on Monday and she hoped to help her school also win the 4x200m relay final on Tuesday.
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The heat of the competition, however, was worn too far by an opponent, because clear video -certificate from the race shows that Tucker is being beaten by a spine-waving runner Van Norcom, who also threw it in the direction of Tucker after he was hired.
Tucker immediately ran off the track and fell down and held her head.
“So, on the rear curve, I was cut a little off and I tried to pass her on the first time, so I let her continue,” Tucker said to WSET ABC 13 Posted in an interview on Friday. “I knew that when I came completely to the corner that I just had to push her through her. So when we came in the middle of the curve, we bumped a lot of arms. So I got a little more on the outside of the bend to go around her.”
“When I finally pushed through to come in front of her, she hit me in the head with the baton.”
Pumping during races is very normal on the track, but not how Tucker’s opponent reacted during the second stage of the race at that time.
“The entire section just breathed,” said Tucker’s mother, Tamarrow, over the people around her in the stands. “We had family from the city, her godparents were here from Myrtle Beach. Everyone just craved breath. When I saw her go down, I could only walk out of the stands. I just knew that I had to go to her.”
“She was quite hysterical because she just couldn’t believe that that had happened.”
Race jury members disqualified the Norcom team immediately for ‘contact interference’, according to WSET ABC 13.
Tamarrow said that a medic was with her daughter when she went on the track, although it was stunned that the whole family was the lack of accountability for what happened.
From Friday they have still heard nothing of the runner or her coaches, she said.
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“My whole thing was not an apology,” Tamarrow said. “No coaches, no athlete, nothing. Even if it was an accident that I believe it is not an accident, but nothing. It is now more than 24 hours ago, so I think that was the most important thing. My child was injured and nobody came to check her.”
WSET ABC 13 asked the Tuckers if criminal charges would be pressed, and without giving a definitive yes-or-no answer, Tamarrow explained their position.
“Of course everyone gives their opinion about what they think you should do, but that is also someone else’s child,” she said, referring to the attacker. “I also want to take that into account. Yes, she certainly beat my daughter more than once, but she is also someone else’s child.”
The family said that a doctor’s visit on Friday revealed concussion symptoms while Kaelen continues to deal with a headache. There was also swelling around the area where she was beaten and a possible skull fracture.
Kaelen is not allowed on the job until she recovers from her injuries, her mother said.
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The Tucker family contacted the VHSL and said they received a calling back in which it was explained that an investigation was underway and both secondary schools were working. According to the Tuckers, no discipline has been announced for the incident.
The VHSL did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Fox News Digital.
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At the end of the interview, Kaelen was asked from their house what she wanted to say to the opponent who hit her if there was something.
“Why did you do it? And why didn’t you apologize yet? ” she said.
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