Two-Time State Diving Champ Dead at 18 After Car Crash

Two-time state diving champion Maisey O’Donnell was one of the three high school seniors killed in a car crash this week … a tragedy that took place during their spring break vacation in Florida.

The incident happened on Monday night on Highway 98 near Panama City … when an SUV carrying O’Donnell and three others crashed with a tractor-trailer that was making a U-turn in the median.

The force of the crash sent the SUV over the median … and it finally came to a stop in the woods nearby.

Two Concord-Carlisle High School students, the driver Jimmy McIntosh and passenger Hannah Wasserman, were pronounced dead at the scene.

O’Donnell, 18, was transported to the Bay Medical Center in critical condition … but later passed away. A fourth student remains in critical condition.

The driver of the trailer was uninjured.

O’Donnell was a two-time Massachusetts state diving champion and earned several other awards, including MVP and 1st Team All-State honors. She planned to attend Williams College in the fall.

Boston Area Diving coach Joe Chirico called her one of the best in the country.

“It’s a tragedy,” Chirico said.

“The little kids looked up to her; the other divers looked up to her. It’s a tragedy that somebody at the top of their game, going to the best academic school, one of the best divers in the nation, was cut so short.”