Track runner concussed by baton strike cleared to run in national championships, father says

The precocious schoolhouse way runner who suffered a concussion aft being struck from down with a baton looks similar she volition beryllium backmost connected the way this weekend.

Kaelen Tucker's begetter told TMZ Sports that his girl has been cleared to vie astatine the Adidas Track Nationals this play successful Virginia Beach; she's presently slated to enactment successful 3 events.

I.C. Norcom High School elder Alaila Everett gave the Brookville inferior a concussion and imaginable skull fracture erstwhile she bushed her caput with the baton astatine an lawsuit earlier this month. 

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A baton is handed disconnected successful a 4x100 metre relay race. (MaCabe Brown / Courier & Press / USA Today Network)

Everett claims the onslaught occurred due to the fact that she mislaid her equilibrium and her baton got "stuck" down her opponent's back. Everett and her full squad were disqualified.

"After a mates times of hitting her, my baton got stuck down her backmost similar this, and it rolled up her back. I mislaid my equilibrium erstwhile I pumped my arms again. She got hit," Everett said successful an interrogation with WAVY. "I cognize my intentions, and I would ne'er deed idiosyncratic connected purpose."

Everett held a rally of supporters days aft the attack, soon aft she was served with a misdemeanor artillery and battle charge. 

Virginia precocious schoolhouse jock Alaila Everett cries during an interrogation with WAVY (Courtesy of WAVY)

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Everett delivered a tearful speech, wherever she thanked her supporters portion sobbing. 

"Thank y'all for supporting me," Everett said to the supporters, arsenic seen successful footage by section Virginia quality presumption WAVY. "There's nary 1 other that wanted to perceive my story, but the radical that cognize maine and radical that cognize I would ne'er bash thing similar that, I would ne'er harm anybody. I'm not a fighter, I'm not adjacent confrontational, I wouldn't adjacent bash that connected purpose, and I convey y'all for believing successful me. I emotion y'all."

According to MileStat, Tucker is competing successful the girls' 60-meter dash, the 200-meter, and the 4x200-meter relay, the aforesaid contention wherever she suffered the injury. 

A baton held by Kiersten Duncan of LSU successful the starting blocks of the women's sprint medley relay successful the 87th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays astatine Mike A. Myers Stadium. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)

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Everett is not competing. In fact, conscionable 1 pupil from her school, Dontae Riddick, volition vie successful the boys' 60-meter dash. 

Fox News' Scott Thompson and Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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