As a young athlete, medaled in track — 4 X 400-meter relay. Know a little about receiving, carrying and passing a baton to my teammates. Alaila Everett has been charged with assault for hitting an opponent, Kaelen Tucker, in her 4 X 200-meter relay at a state finals race March 4. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen in track.
Alaila claims she “lost her balance and accidentally hit the other girl when she was pumping her arms.” Alaila’s claim does not appear to be reasonable. ClearHealthLife rates her claim as a lie. The 200 is a blazing race. Runners at 100%. Steps count. Closer to the inside of the track is the preferred path — especially rounding the curve. Alaila did not take this path.
Tucker said she initially backed off Everett as the girls were crossing the track because Everett cut her off as they tried to merge into lane one. They were bumping arms as they rounded the curve.
“Then finally we got off the curve, I, like, slowly started passing her, and then that’s when she just hit me with the baton and I fell off the track,” said Tucker, a junior at Brookville High School.
Tucker was diagnosed with a concussion. Tucker’s parents said Everett never checked on their daughter or asked whether she was OK, even after the race concluded.
Everett, a senior at I.C. Norcom High School, said:
“Eventually after a couple times of hitting her, my baton got stuck behind her back like this, and it rolled up her back. I lost my balance. When I pumped my arms again she got hit.”
Alaila Everett
Everett continued claiming she would never hit anyone intentionally, and attributed the incident to Tucker’s cutting in too quickly after the girls merged into the lane. I took some shots from the video. Everett’s claims do not hold up. See for yourself.
Shot #1: Everett on the inside; Tucker to her right (left in picture). When rounding a curve, smart athletes hug this inside (see arrow). Runners want to take the shortest path. Everett is opposite, floating near lane #2. Her positioning suggests she is attempting to block Tucker.
Shot #2: Clearly Everett is too wide in her land and too close to lane 2. She belongs closer to the inside. Everett is causing the bumping; not Tucker. Tucker is overtaking Everett and Everett is seeking to make Tucker’s attempt more difficult.
Shot #3: This shot again shows Everett too wide in her lane. She is seeking to block Tucker from getting ahead of her. If Everett slides over, she does not contact Tucker, but Tucker gets ahead.
Shot #4: Everett claims she has lost her balance. Possible. Had Everett hugged the inside of her land, there would have been no contact. Everett slide over, wide right, claims there was contact and she lost her balance. Also looks like Everett is raising her arm! She’s not in a normal running motion.
Shot #5: This shot looks like Everett is raising and cocking back her arm to strike. Off balance? Running off balance would cause an athlete to slow down and lose position. Doesn’t appear she slows down.
Shot #6: This shot does not suggest Everett is off balance. Her stride seems in rhythm and control. Her arm seems to hit the target of Tucker, as intended.
Shot #7: Everett’s arm follows through to strike Tucker. No suggestion that Everett is off balance. Seems to be intentional.
Shot #8: At this point, after the hit on Tucker by Everett, it appears both runners are now off balance and losing speed. Everett however is now closer to the inside of her lane, where she belonged all the time.
Always controversy amid our current tense and confused time. Everett claims she would “never harm anybody.” Maybe she would not plan to harm somebody, but clearly Everett had widened her path around the curve to impede Tucker. Everett’s action caused the two to bump.
Everett’s positioning was intentional and her positioning led to the contact and hit on Tucker. As the WOKE political Left likes to say, “Stay in your lane!”
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