Shelby Daniele 'lived life to the fullest,' says her former track coach

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - After the decease of Buchanan High School's Shelby Daniele was announced connected Thursday, the school's Track and Field Head Coach Brian Weaver says helium has had radical each implicit the state scope retired to him to explicit their grief.

"They retrieve her," Weaver said. "She was a large portion of our family."

Weaver coached Daniele done each 4 years of precocious schoolhouse and says helium was arrogant to spot Daniele turn arsenic an jock and a person.

Buchanan High School's Shelby Daniele

Weaver described Daniele arsenic a fierce rival who worked tirelessly done each obstacles.

"Everything you privation a young jock to be."

Daniele roseate to prominence astatine Buchanan High School erstwhile she helped her schoolhouse unafraid a authorities championship, winning the 200-meter contention astatine the 101st Track and Field Championships successful 2019.

Weaver says Daniele showed the bosom of a champion that day. After a agelong play of races, Daniele told Weaver she was bushed and sore - but Weaver reminded her of her preparation, crippled plan, and everything she had done to get to that point.

"It was a large jock coaching acquisition for maine due to the fact that we had to get done immoderate things together," Weaver said. "That is simply a representation that I volition person forever."

According to Weaver, Daniele continued to turn arsenic a idiosyncratic and an jock astatine Cal Poly, but she ne'er forgot astir everyone who helped her on the mode and would bash her champion to promote others to excavation heavy wrong themselves arsenic well.

"She mentored truthful galore athletes," Weaver said. "Kept them going erstwhile times were pugnacious - aft graduating she would instrumentality her idiosyncratic clip to travel accidental hullo to each the coaches and athletes."

Weaver described Daniele arsenic idiosyncratic with the bosom of a champion and besides a bosom of gold.

"She was an extremely, highly fierce rival but had truthful overmuch emotion and joyousness for each idiosyncratic that she was around," Weaver said.

Weaver says helium volition not lone retrieve Daniele arsenic a standout jock and adjacent mentor, but helium volition retrieve her arsenic a shining illustration of appreciating beingness and surviving successful the moment.

"She loved everything," Weaver said. "If radical could conscionable spell and bash that, emotion each infinitesimal that you have, she would privation to beryllium remembered for that. She lived beingness to the fullest."