Maisey O’Donnell, Two-Time State Diving Champion, Dead at 18

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A Massachusetts highschool neighborhood is in mourning.

Two-time state diving champion Maisey O’Donnell and her Harmony-Carlisle Excessive Faculty classmates Jimmy McIntosh and Hannah Wasserman, had been killed in a automobile accident in Florida, just a bit over a month earlier than their commencement from the Boston space college. A fourth passenger, an 18-year-old girl, stays in important situation.

The highschool seniors all 18, had been touring in an SUV on a freeway within the Florida Panhandle simply earlier than 9:30 p.m. April 21—the primary day of their college’s spring break—when their car collided with a tractor-trailer because it was performing a U-turn on a paved median, the Florida Freeway Patrol stated in a press release to E! Information.

The automobile carrying the kids then traveled moved throughout the median and each eastbound lanes earlier than coming to a relaxation off the street, police stated, including that Jimmy, who was driving the automobile, and Hannah had been pronounced lifeless on the scene. Maisey and the unnamed fourth passenger had been transported to a hospital in important situation.

The tractor-trailer’s driver and passenger, males aged 19 and 23, respectively, had been unhurt, police stated of their assertion.

Maisey, who had planned to attend Williams College, obtained a slew of tributes from family and friends on social media.

“I don’t actually have phrases. I by no means thought this present day would come,” her youthful sister Emmy O’Donnell wrote on her Instagram April 22, alongside pictures of the 2. “I like you greater than something on this world. You had been my sister however my greatest buddy. There was by no means a day that you simply weren’t there for me when i wanted you most.”

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Following the tragedy, officers of their college district shared their grief.

“The Harmony-Carlisle Excessive Faculty neighborhood has realized of a tragic automobile accident that passed off in Florida on Monday night time, “Harmony-Carlisle Regional Faculty District Superintendent Dr. Laurie Hunter stated in a press release April 22, per Boston TV station WCVB. “Two seniors, Jimmy McIntosh and Hannah Wasserman, handed away because of the accident.”

The assertion continued, “We provide our deep condolences to the households and mates of Hannah and Jimmy throughout this unimaginable time. Their loss might be deeply felt by our college neighborhood in addition to by so many households in Carlisle and Harmony.”

The superintendent than shared an replace later that day. “We realized {that a} third CCHS senior, Maisey O’Donnell, handed this afternoon,” she stated in a brand new assertion. “Maisey is within the organ donation program as her household hopes that it’ll give which means to those meaningless tragedies.”

Maisey, who had planned to attend Williams College, obtained a slew of tributes from family and friends on social media.

“I don’t actually have phrases. I by no means thought this present day would come,” her youthful sister Emmy O’Donnell wrote on her Instagram April 22, alongside pictures of the 2. “I like you greater than something on this world. You had been my sister however my greatest buddy. There was by no means a day that you simply weren’t there for me when i wanted you most.”

Describing Maisey as “so sort, humorous and sensible,” she continued, “I keep in mind the occasions when it felt like nothing else mattered and it was simply you and me laughing collectively. To those that knew you, you had been so particular. You had been so full of sunshine and potential. I don’t know what to do with out you. You had been my inspiration and my position mannequin in the whole lot I did.”

Emmy stated she “will all the time keep in mind each drive to high school, trip, meals and health club run” along with her sister. “You’ll all the time be so beloved by everybody,” she added. “I do know you’ll all the time be watching over me and I promise to make you proud. Relaxation simple.”

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