Toby Atwood, a 21-year-old Thiel College student and athlete, died after collapsing during an Erie half-marathon.

Kittanning resident and Thiel College student Toby Atwood collapsed during Sunday's Erie Half Marathon at Presque Isle State Park. She died hours later at UPMC Hamot at age 21.

It is both a sorrowful and heartwarming truth that she passed away doing something she was so passionate about.”