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MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA: A female high school volleyball player in North Carolina was seriously injured after a trans opponent reportedly spiked a ball into her face.
Hiwassee Dam High School competed against Highlands High School in a girls' volleyball tournament in early September. The game saw an unnamed biological male playing for Highlands spike a ball over the net and hit an unnamed Hiwassee Dam player -- a biological female -- directly in the face. Video from the incident is grainy at best, but the female player can be seen lying on the floor for some time before she could walk off the court of her own volition.
According to The Blaze, the girl is experiencing long-term concussion symptoms, including vision problems, and has not been cleared to return to play by doctors at the time of publication. Following the incident, the Cherokee County Board of Education voted 5-1 to cancel all future volleyball games against Highlands High School, citing a "safety issue." One of the board members was reportedly convinced by a long-serving coach to vote in favor of canceling the games. "A coach of 40 years said they’d never seen a hit like this," Cherokee board member Joe Wood said, adding, "That was really what sealed the decision, at least on my part." The assertion by the unidentified coach was confirmed by The Post Millenial.
Jeff Tatham, another board member, said the ball had allegedly been traveling at 70 mph when it struck the girl's face. "I don’t know if that’s faster than normal, but it seemed like it was coming off very fast, abnormally, especially fast," Tatham recalled. "It not only hit her in the face, then the ball came off of her face with enough force to then go back through the net."
MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA: A female high school volleyball player in North Carolina was seriously injured after a trans opponent reportedly spiked a ball into her face.
Hiwassee Dam High School competed against Highlands High School in a girls' volleyball tournament in early September. The game saw an unnamed biological male playing for Highlands spike a ball over the net and hit an unnamed Hiwassee Dam player -- a biological female -- directly in the face. Video from the incident is grainy at best, but the female player can be seen lying on the floor for some time before she could walk off the court of her own volition.
According to The Blaze, the girl is experiencing long-term concussion symptoms, including vision problems, and has not been cleared to return to play by doctors at the time of publication. Following the incident, the Cherokee County Board of Education voted 5-1 to cancel all future volleyball games against Highlands High School, citing a "safety issue." One of the board members was reportedly convinced by a long-serving coach to vote in favor of canceling the games. "A coach of 40 years said they’d never seen a hit like this," Cherokee board member Joe Wood said, adding, "That was really what sealed the decision, at least on my part." The assertion by the unidentified coach was confirmed by The Post Millenial.
Jeff Tatham, another board member, said the ball had allegedly been traveling at 70 mph when it struck the girl's face. "I don’t know if that’s faster than normal, but it seemed like it was coming off very fast, abnormally, especially fast," Tatham recalled. "It not only hit her in the face, then the ball came off of her face with enough force to then go back through the net."
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