By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
Former Harvard and Ohio State swimmer Felicia Pasadyn has been sharing her story of recovery after being hit by a truck back in September while on a run.
Pasadyn was struck by a truck that she said on her Instagram was going “at least” 45 miles per hour on September 9. Since finishing her stellar academic and athletic career, Pasadyn has been a full-time student at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, pursuing her medical degree.
In November 2025, Pasadyn qualified for the US Olympic Marathon Trials after finishing 14th among all women at the New York City Marathon with a 2:35:00, earning her spot at the Olympic Trials.
Pasadyn shared an update on her Instagram, where she detailed the accident in which she fell face down on the pavement six weeks ago, calling this process the “hardest ‘marathon’ yet”.
6 weeks ago, a truck traveling at least 45 mph threw my body, and I landed face down on the pavement. I struggle to comprehend how I walked away from something so violent with a chance to live even some of the life I was building for myself. 42 days post-accident, I am repeatedly coming back to 2 things:
1. This accident is not something I can make sense of on my own. I can understand the numerous injuries as a physician, but I cannot fully explain why I survived the way I did. God had other plans for my life. I have been given more time, and I want to use that with intention
2. They say you cannot train for something like this. But maybe I was being prepared for this mountain long before I knew it existed. This recovery battle has been harder than any race, training block, or challenge I have ever faced. There is no finish line in sight. Progress is slow. The days can feel lonely, frustrating, painful, and emotional. I miss moving without pain. However, the discipline, patience, and perseverance I spent years building are helping me face my hardest “marathon” yet. I refuse to believe my past training was for nothing
Although 6 weeks is only the beginning of a recovery I still cannot fully predict (and I have a LONG way to go)…
I am HERE. I have people to help, a future I still get to work toward, patients to care for, and another day to make something of this wonderful life I have been given
If life has placed you on a mountain you never asked to climb, I hope you just keep taking the next step. You are creating a stronger future version of you right now #accident #injury #trauma #runner #recovery
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About a week after the accident, she shared a post that detailed the accident in more detail, including the injuries that she sustained, which included eight separate fractures, abdominal bleeding, kidney lacerations, and two puncture wounds in her right knee, among others.
Pasadyn’s years in in the water were well decorates, having spent four years with the Harvard Crimson (where she earned her bachelors and masters degrees in integrative biology), there she was awarded the NCAA Elite 90 award in 2022, was the Ivy league Championships co-high point swimmer of the meet in 2019, a 10-time first team All-Ivy League selection, and still holds three program records (200 back, 200 IM, 400 IM) for the Crimson, among many other accolades.
After her years at Harvard, Pasadyn spent a graduate season at Ohio State, where she won the 2023 Big Ten title in the 400 IM, set two school records (her 200 fly record still stands), and earned an All-Big Ten First Team nod and an All-American selection.
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