A SKI champion died after suffering a traumatic head injury at a ski resort.
Ellery Curtis, 26, died on Saturday at the resort during an accident on the slopes.
Curtis was a second-team All-American in the giant slalom for Dartmouth College and placed eight at the NCAA championships in March 2022.
The 26-year-old was skiing at the Palisades Tahoe resort in Olympic Valley, California, when she got into the fatal accident, the LA Times reported.
“Our ski patrol team responded immediately and provided on-site medical care, but the individual succumbed to their injuries,”; Patrick Lacey, a spokesperson for the Palisades Tahoe resort, told the Boston Globe.
“Our thoughts go out to their loved ones during this difficult time.”;
Lacey said the athlete hurt herself on terrain accessed from the popular KT-22 chairlift.
Curtis' death marks the fourth fatality at the resort and the fifth death in the Sierra Nevada area this year.
The 26-year-old Vermont native graduated from Dartmouth College in 2022, where she was a three-time member of the National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team.
“She was an amazing person, on and off the snow,” John Dwyer, Curtis' Dartmouth coach, told the Boston Globe.
“She was a tremendously hard worker, and I think she earned the respect of all her teammates.”
Dwyer described the skier as “fearless,” with a strong desire to win.
“It was either she was going to win every race she was in, on the podium, or she was going to blow up and fall,” he recalled.
“That’s what made her special. She did not hold back on anything she did.”;
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