CARRABASSETT VALLEY – A 16-year-old Connecticut girl died from injuries she suffered after crashing into a tree at Sugarloaf on Tuesday.
Rebecca McGill, a slalom racer and student at Vermont’s Stratton Mountain School, was attending Speed Week training camp with a group of other students. Sugarloaf officials say McGill was not in a training session when the accident occurred.
McGill was skiing on the cross-cut Spillway Trail when she lost control, went off the trail and skied into a tree, said Carrabassett Valley Police Chief Scott Nichols.
Sugarloaf’s ski patrol took her down the mountain and she was transported by medical helicoper LifeFlight to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston where she died on Wednesday, a day after the crash.
Stratton Mountain School, according to its Web site, focuses on training high school students in downhill and Nordic ski racing at Stratton Mountain Ski Resort.
