Kelly Catlin, a U. S. Olympic track cyclist who competed in the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Games, died of…
Kelly Catlin, a U. S. Olympic track cyclist who competed in the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Games, died of a reported suicide on March 8, reported The Associated Press.
Catlin, 23, won a silver medal with the women’s pursuit team at the 2016 Olympics.
According to the AP, she was found dead at her home in California last week.
Her father, Mark Catlin, told VeloNews that her cause of death was suicide.
“There isn’t a minute that goes by that we don’t think of her and think of the wonderful life she could have lived,” Mark Catlin wrote. “There isn’t a second in which we wouldn’t freely give our lives in exchange for hers. The hurt is unbelievable.”
Her brother, Colin, said on Facebook that his “sister Kelly committed suicide last night,” SFGate reported .
“She’s the one person I had shared almost my entire life with, and I shall miss her terribly,” he said.
Other than being a track cyclist, Catlin was a graduate student at Stanford University in the Bay Area, and she was pursuing a degree in computational and mathematical engineering.
