Usually on this website when we talk about protecting women's sports we're talking about keeping the men out of the category. Today, we'll focus on keeping biological females such as this runner from IC Norcom High School in Virginia out of the sport as well.
Jealous much?
Alaila Everett hit Brookville High School junior Kaelen Tucker in the head with the baton on the second leg of the 4x200, and now she's got a concussion; not to mention the fact that she didn't even get to finish the VHSL State Indoor Championships race and her team was eliminated from the relay.
‘When we get onto the other side of the track we have to cross to lane one, you have to merge in, and as I was coming up on her she kind of made me get cut off a little bit so I backed away,' Tucker told WSLS.
‘When we got to the curve she kept bumping me in my arm and when we got off the curve I finally passed her and that was when she hit me with the baton.'
For the record, IC Norcom High School was disqualified from the event as a result of this unsportsmanlike conduct. However, while Tucker received an apology from NHS's athletic director, as well as the runner's father, they're still waiting on an apology from the athlete herself, and her coach.
What's more, neither the NHS coach, nor Everett even checked on Tucker after the race.
Everett says it was all a big accident.
By the way, I wasn't just goofing around when I mentioned this runner may have been jealous. Kaelen Tucker, before the relay race, had already secured a silver medal in the girls' 55-meter dash earlier in the day.
It is unknown whether or not the unsportsmanlike athlete had participated in that race as well.
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