Virginia high school athlete Alaila Everett told "Good Morning America" Tuesday that she never meant to strike her fellow ...

A Portsmouth athlete is facing charges of assault and battery after a viral video showed her hitting another student with a baton during a track meet.

Alaila Everett said it was an accident but court records show she is now facing a potential assault and battery charge.

Track and field isn't supposed to be a dangerous sport, especially not at the high school level, but a recent incident ...

Junior Kaelen Tucker was running the second leg of the 4x200 relay in the Virginia State High School League Championships ...

NEW: High school track runner gets attacked with a baton in the middle of a relay at the VSHL Class 3 State Indoor ...

Video from the meet shows the two runners next to each other coming around a corner. As Kaelen passed Alaila, Alaila swung ...

Virginia high school runner Kaelen Tucker was hit in the head with a relay baton by high school runner Alaila Everett during a race.

The runner and her family said a video that shows the on-track incident in which she hits another runner with a baton was an accident.

According to Brookville High School junior Kaelen Tucker, she's still waiting on the ... race shows Tucker getting struck in the head by a baton-wielding runner from Norcom, who also threw it ...

Brookville High School junior Kaelen Tucker was the second leg runner for ... wound up her arm back and smacked the baton across the Brookville runner’s head, according to a video of the incident.