PARK CITY, Utah (AP) – A member of the U.S. Ski Team’s developmental squad died Saturday of head injuries she suffered in a crash during a training run earlier in the week.

Shelley Glover, 17, was training at Mount Bachelor Resort in Oregon when she fell and hit her head Wednesday morning, U.S. Ski Team spokesman Tom Kelly said.

“It was a low to moderate speed accident. It wasn’t a big downhill crash,” Kelly said. “This was not a circumstance where you’d expect something like this to happen.”

Glover was wearing her helmet when she crashed, Kelly said. She died Saturday at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Ore., where her parents and sister had flown in from their Madison, Wis., home after hearing about the crash, Kelly said.

Glover was in her second year with the developmental squad. She placed eighth in the slalom in March at the U.S. Alpine Championships in Girdwood, Alaska. She also won a pair of international races in Waterville Valley, N.H., at the end of January.

She finished the season ranked sixth in the NorAm Cup standings.

Glover attended the Burke Mountain Academy, a private high school in Vermont, and joined the U.S. Ski Team’s Development Team in 2002.

“She was absolutely tracking toward the Olympic team. If it wasn’t ’06, it was definitely 2010,” Kelly said. “It’s a real tragedy.”

Glover is believed to be the first member of the U.S. Ski Team to die in training or competition since Jeff Wright was killed in a 1975 ski jumping accident in Brattleboro, Vt., Kelly said.

“It’s very much a loss to our family when something like this happens,” he said.

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