“I was always told that she was young enough to bounce back to full health after each case and therefore never consulted with the doctors that I met, about any previous concussions.”īut Soutter’s final concussion was so “huge” that she spent two nights in the hospital. “With every concussion, with the exception of a few minor knocks, Ellie saw a doctor in person,” he added. As she progressed, becoming an elite athlete starting on the World Cup circuit, every time she had another concussion, they got worse, and they took longer to recover from,” he told CNN. “I was being advised by doctors “Oh, don’t worry, she’s young enough she’ll bounce back. “She just made it look graceful and beautiful.”īut training took its toll – Soutter told CNN that his daughter suffered seven major concussions in five years, between 20. “It was quite obvious why she kept winning competitions because she just made it easy,” her father said. Soutter’s father Tony said there were many dimensions to his young daughter – not only was she an “adrenaline junkie,” but she was “very conscientious” and excelled in school, even after moving from England to France.Īged 12, Soutter took up snowboarding at school – and just months later, she was spotted in her hometown resort of Les Gets and trialed by Team Great Britain in February 2013. She was always upbeat and bubbly about things,” her father told CNN.Įllie suffered several major concussions in five years. “As far as we knew she was never a person that suffered from depression. Wherever she turned she could not find help.” Her heart rate would also accelerate rapidly from even the smallest exertion, leaving her with “no exercise tolerance whatsoever,” he added. She tried to train, but “she would have to stop because she got a severe headache just from walking,” according to her father. She was referred to a concussion specialist, the document adds. Stanford Health Center, having diagnosed Catlin with concussion with ongoing symptoms, recommended that she decrease her training for 2 weeks and then gradually build back up and start sessions with an athletic trainer, medical documents sent to CNN by her father show. I believe they assumed she would seek care at Stanford,” he told CNN.ĬNN has reached out to Stanford and USA Cycling for comment.Ĭatlin’s symptoms didn’t improve, and in weekly phone calls with her parents, she admitted she was struggling with schoolwork and was unable to concentrate. “There wasn’t any follow-up from Colorado after this. It was confirmed she suffered a concussion, and a return to training protocol was advised, but not implemented or communicated to her coach, he said. When Catlin returned to the US, her father says she was examined by the track training center in Colorado. Mark CatlinĪ concussion is a brain injury which happens after a hit to the head or body causes the brain to move back and forth inside the skull, according to the CDC. Kelly, with her team and silver medal, representing USA in the Womens Team Pursuit at the Rio Olympics. Her father told CNN that this, coupled with her symptoms, caused her family to become aware she had suffered a concussion, which was later confirmed with a diagnosis from Stanford’s Health Centre. On closer inspection, Catlin’s helmet from LA had dents in it. And if she’s rolling around on the ground, clutching her head, it has to be a severe thing.” “Kelly is kind of this stoical individual. It wasn’t her first crash – she had experienced 4 or 5 hard crashes before this, her father said, and after the latest, she didn’t have any symptoms at the time.īut soon after, at a World Cup track event in Berlin, Catlin was gripped by a sudden and severe headache.
Despite suffering road rash, Catlin got back on her bike, and finished the ride. Practicing fast downhill descents in the hills near Los Angeles, she crashed and went skidding down the road. Her life changed irrevocably in January 2019. After winning a Canadian international race at 17 she was invited to an Olympic training camp for a try out, where, impressed by her performance numbers, coaches immediately offered her a position on the track pursuit team.Ĭatlin’s father, Mark, told CNN, that his daughter was “intense” and “ambitious,” attributes she channeled into her sporting life.
#I think my brain just committed trial#
Mark Catlinīefore becoming a track cyclist, Catlin, a triplet, was a national champion road cyclist and time trial national champion, her father Mark, told CNN. Kelly, pictured at the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minnesota after the Olympics (2017), where she would sometimes go for workouts when she was home from university.
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