Former All-State gymnast dies following practice accident

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A college gymnast from Connecticut has died following a training accident.
Officials at Southern Connecticut State University say 20-year-old Melanie Coleman died Sunday at Yale New Haven Hospital, two days after suffering a spinal cord injury during practice.
University President Joe Bertolino called Coleman’s death a “tragic loss.”
She was a junior nursing student at the New Haven school.
Coleman was a former All State gymnast at Jonathan Law Hig