Catlin, 23, won a silver medal with the women’s pursuit team at the 2016 Olympics.
According to the AP, she was found dead at her home in California last week.
“There isn’t a minute that goes by that we don’t think of her and think of the wonderful life she could have lived,” Mark Catlin wrote. “There isn’t a second in which we wouldn’t freely give our lives in exchange for hers. The hurt is unbelievable.”
“She’s the one person I had shared almost my entire life with, and I shall miss her terribly,” he said.
Other than being a track cyclist, Catlin was a graduate student at Stanford University in the Bay Area, and she was pursuing a degree in computational and mathematical engineering.
She recently wrote a blog post in VeloNews about how she manages her time.
She also wrote that recovery is important as well.
“Now I am going to say something cliche: The greatest strength you will ever develop is the ability to recognize your own weaknesses, and to learn to ask for help when you need it. This is a lesson I have only just begun learning, slowly and painfully, these first few months as a graduate student. I still fail,” she wrote.
“As athletes, we are all socially programmed to be stoic with our pain, to bear our burdens and not complain, even when such stoicism reaches the point of stupidity and those burdens begin to damage us. These are hard habits to break.”
USA Cycling’s CEO, Rob DeMartini, issued a statement about her death on March 10.
Catlin won gold medals with the U.S. women’s team pursuit team at the 2016, 2017, and 2018 world championships. She was a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Reuters reported.
Other details about her death are not clear.