‘She’s everybody’s sunshine’: Utah CrossFit community rallies around gym owner as she fights for her life following accident

RIVERTON, Utah (ABC4) — The community is rallying around a local CrossFit Gym owner and are working to get her home after she was seriously injured while golfing in Puerto Vallarta.

Kerrie Olsen is the owner of Skol CrossFit, a gym in Riverton. According to friends, she was in Puerto Vallarta with her husband, Paul, and several others, when she was involved in a golf cart accident. Olsen suffered a severe traumatic brain injury and had to undergo emergency surgery.

At this time, Olsen is in an Intensive Care Unit in Mexico and is in a medically induced coma, with her family and friends working to get her home to the United States to be with her community.

ABC4.com spoke with some of those community members on what Kerrie means to them and the effort to bring her home…

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