Melanie Coleman, 20, suffered a spinal cord injury while practicing on the bars.
She was a former All State gymnast at Jonathan Law High School in Milford, Conn.
Ms. Coleman was rushed to Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital on the night of the incident where she later died.
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