US News, March 10 -- A sprinter from a Virginia high school sustained a concussion and a possible skull fracture when her competitor struck her in the back of the head with a relay baton during a race.

Kaelen Tucker, a junior at Brookville High School, was running the second leg of the 4x200 meter relay at the VHSL Class 3 State Indoor Championships at Liberty University on Friday, according to a report by the New York Post.

Tucker, who had won silver in the girls' 55m dash earlier in the event, was trying to move into lane one while battling for second place as she rounded turn four, according to the report.

"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's ...