Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin dies at 23

Catlin, a current USA Cycling national team member, won the silver medal in women's team pursuit at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

"Kelly was more than an athlete to us, and she will always be part of the USA Cycling family," Rob DeMartini, USA Cycling president and CEO, said in a statement. "The entire cycling community is mourning this immense loss. We are offering continuous support to Kelly's teammates, coaches and staff."

Catlin was a student and an athlete

Catlin was a native of Minnesota, according to the USA Cycling website, and was an alumna of the University of Minnesota.

She was a graduate student at Stanford University, studying computational mathematics, according to a February guest article she wrote for the cycling magazine Velo News where she described her struggles in juggling her academic and athletic career.

"Being a graduate student, track cyclist, and professional road cyclist can instead feel like I need to time-travel to get everything done. And things still slip through the cracks," she wrote. "It's like juggling with knives, but I really am dropping a lot of them. It's just that most of them hit the floor and not me."

CNN's Amanda Watts contributed to this report.

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