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

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23-04-2025

Originally appeared on E! Online
A Massachusetts high school community is in mourning.
Two-time state diving champion Maisey O'Donnell and her Concord-Carlisle High School classmates Jimmy McIntosh and Hannah Wasserman, were killed in a car accident in Florida, just a little over a month before their graduation from the Boston area school. A fourth passenger, an 18-year-old woman, remains in critical condition.
The high school seniors all 18, were traveling in an SUV on a highway in the Florida Panhandle just before 9:30 p.m. April 21—the first day of their school's spring break—when their vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer as it was performing a U-turn on a paved median, the Florida Highway Patrol said in a statement to E! News.
The car carrying the teens then traveled moved across the median and both eastbound lanes before coming to a rest off the road, police said, adding that Jimmy, who was driving the car, and Hannah were pronounced dead on the scene. Maisey and the unnamed fourth passenger were transported to a hospital in critical condition.
The tractor-trailer's driver and passenger, men aged 19 and 23, respectively, were unharmed, police said in their statement.
Maisey, who had planned to attend Williams College, received a slew of tributes from friends and family on social media.
"I don't really have words. I never thought this day would come," her younger sister Emmy O'Donnell wrote on her Instagram April 22, alongside photos of the two. "I love you more than anything in this world. You were my sister but my best friend. There was never a day that you weren't there for me when i needed you most."
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Following the tragedy, officials in their school district shared their grief.
"The Concord-Carlisle High School community has learned of a tragic car accident that took place in Florida on Monday night, "Concord-Carlisle Regional School District Superintendent Dr. Laurie Hunter said in a statement April 22, per Boston TV station WCVB. "Two seniors, Jimmy McIntosh and Hannah Wasserman, passed away as a result of the accident."
The statement continued, "We offer our deep condolences to the families and friends of Hannah and Jimmy during this unimaginable time. Their loss will be deeply felt by our school community as well as by so many families in Carlisle and Concord."
The superintendent than shared an update later that day. "We learned that a third CCHS senior, Maisey O'Donnell, passed this afternoon," she said in a new statement. "Maisey is in the organ donation program as her family hopes that it will give meaning to these meaningless tragedies."
Maisey, who had planned to attend Williams College, received a slew of tributes from friends and family on social media.
"I don't really have words. I never thought this day would come," her younger sister Emmy O'Donnell wrote on her Instagram April 22, alongside photos of the two. "I love you more than anything in this world. You were my sister but my best friend. There was never a day that you weren't there for me when i needed you most."
Describing Maisey as "so kind, funny and smart," she continued, "I remember the times when it felt like nothing else mattered and it was just you and me laughing together. To those who knew you, you were so special. You were so full of light and potential. I don't know what to do without you. You were my inspiration and my role model in everything I did."
Emmy said she "will always remember every drive to school, vacation, food and gym run" with her sister. "You will always be so loved by everyone," she added. "I know you will always be watching over me and I promise to make you proud. Rest easy."
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