US faculty gymnast Melanie Coleman has tragically died after struggling a spinal twine damage throughout coaching whereas working towards on the uneven bars.
The 20-year-old gymnast at Southern Connecticut State College was sprucing her uneven bars routine on the New Period Gymnastics facility in Hamden on Friday, the place her workforce trains as soon as every week, when the tragic accident occurred.
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She abruptly fell off the bar, critically damaging her spinal twine. The gymnast was taken to Yale New Haven Hospital, the place she died two days later.
“We’re heartbroken and surprised by Melanie’s passing,” Coleman’s coach Mary Fredericks stated. “She was an extremely onerous employee and a sweet-spirited younger lady. Our ideas and prayers proceed to exit to her household presently. The SCSU Gymnastics workforce will miss her vastly although she is going to all the time be with us.”
Such tragic information to listen to that Melanie Coleman died from accidents sustained in coaching in school. My coronary heart is totally aching for her household, buddies and workforce mates. https://t.co/Mh84v1UFKP
— KT (@britishgymfan) November 11, 2019
“Her coaches and professors describe Melanie as a particular younger lady, who excelled each within the classroom and within the fitness center,” Joe Bertolino, stated the college’s president, expressing his condolences. “Our deepest sympathies are prolonged to her household and buddies on this tragic loss.”
The gymnast was pursuing a level in nursing from Southern Connecticut and was named an All-America Scholar-Athlete by USA Gymnastics final 12 months.
Southern Connecticut State College Athletics Mourns Passing Of Gymnast Melanie Coleman https://t.co/DrU1RylTKZ
— SCSU Athletics (@SCSU_Owls) November 11, 2019
Coleman’s household arrange a GoFundMe web page following the tragedy, describing the heart-breaking accident as “tragic and freak.”
