A silver medalist in team pursuit in the 2016 Rio Olympics, the cyclist took her life last week.
By Cindy Boren Cindy Boren Reporter covering sports, with an emphasis on politics and national stories Email Bio Follow March 11 at 1:35 PM Pressure was Kelly Catlin’s constant and silent companion. That pressure helped boost Catlin to great athletic and academic heights, turning her into a “warrior princess,” as her father called her.
Catlin was a champion cyclist, winning a silver medal with the U.S. in the 2016 Rio Olympics in team pursuit and three consecutive world titles in team pursuit between 2016 and 2018. In her spare time, she competed with the Rally Cycling road team and excelled as a violinist and artist. Academically, she soared, taking a degree in biomedical engineering and Chinese from the University of Minnesota and advancing to postgraduate work in computational and mathematical engineering.
“Of course, Kelly being Kelly, she never pursued excellence in only one category,” Andy Sparks, her national team coach at the Olympic Training Center from 2015 through the Olympics in 2016, wrote in a tribute. “She had the highest expectations and work ethic of anyone I have ever met: An accomplished violinist, fluent in Chinese, a degree in Biomedical Engineering, all packaged in a person who always put others first.
Like others, Townsend is seeking a way to take some sort of lesson out of Catlin’s death, writing that his organization will reexamine its approach to head injuries. View this post on Instagram Reposted from @schwinnatallcosts - I woke up this morning to some really terrible news. For me, Kelly Catlin was our hometown hero. We witnessed her and all of her talent and strength come up through local races as junior, cheering our faces off. We also came up to her, sheepishly and incredibly awkwardly, after the Olympic silver and the three world championship wins, asking to pose with her for pictures and autographs.
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