The Virginia high school sprinter accused of smacking her opponent on the back of the head with a baton shouted at her younger competitor during the alleged attack, according to a report. Alaila Everett was the baton-wielding senior who was running the second leg for I.

The 4x200m relay event was marred by controversy after Everett appeared to attack Tucker with the baton as her rival tried to move round the outside. The clip, which went viral on social media, shows Everett pulling her right arm back and smacking the baton she was carrying across her opponent's head in shocking scenes.

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.

The high school runner accused of striking a competitor with her baton is speaking out, insisting it was an accident.

"I would never hit somebody on purpose," Alaila Everett said of the incident at a Virginia state championship race

Video shows Brookville High School student Kaelen Tucker running just ahead of I.C. Norcom student Alaila Everett in the Class 3 Track and Field State Finals, when Everett hits Tucker with the baton.

The Virginia track runner accused of hitting her opponent with a baton during a 4x200 metre relay race yelled at the younger athlete, according to a lip reader. Alaila Everett, a senior at I.C. Norcom High School,