Death has always caused sudden deaths in elite college athletes, including through aneurysms.
Often with sudden youthful deaths the past four years, the media has chosen to pass over the cause of death with a shroud of respectful silence.
But in the case of Shelby Daniele, her family has given into our curiosity and admitted that it was a rare inability to survive aneurysm that led to her safe-but-deadly demise.
Former Cal Poly track and field star Shelby Daniele reportedly died from a brain aneurysm following the 23-year-old stand-out athlete’s death on Wednesday.
Daniele’s cause of death was revealed last week by the father of a fellow athlete attending the California NCAA Division I school, Brian Brandenburg, in a Facebook post last week.
Brandenburg, who paid tribute to his two daughters, Tori and Eva, on National Daughters Day in the post, shared that Daniele was the “driving force” behind Eva choosing to run Track at Cal Poly.
“My joy is crushed tonight. The young lady that was the driving force in Eva’s decision to run Track at Cal Poly, Shelby Daniele, passed away last night of a brain aneurism,” Brandenburg wrote.
You don’t really “survive” a brain aneurism. Half of people who suffer a rupture from one die immediately, and even among survivors, the high majority suffer severe permanent cognitive deficits.

But these are semantics on the part of the media and a willing populace who don’t want to believe that the vaccinated are sitting on a time bomb.
“She died from a brain aneurysm” is a weird dodge to avoid discussing where the aneurysm came from, the only thing we would care about. It also skirts the COVID vaccine (it was a mRNA gene therapy shot) and the fact that its release to the public has been followed by millions of mysterious sudden deaths and huge increases in heart attacks, strokes and cancer.
A brain aneurysm is a “bulge in a weak area of a blood vessel in or around your brain” and is considered life-threatening once ruptured, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Why is this sentence in the article? It’s dumb. I mean defining it is pointless, but telling us that they’re life-threatening is extremely weird.
“Breaking: the brain reacts very badly when any of its blood vessels burst! Death Might Ensue!”
In effect, this is just words thrown out to dazzle readers with a sheen of SCIENCE. The media wants people to think that track stars have always frequently suffered from these types of events, and they’re hoping that if they dwell on highfalutin medical details the death will seem like a tragic but ultimately mysterious outcome.
Crucially, there is a steadfast effort to steer people away from asking any questions about why these things keep happening so much, and how the vaccines fit into it all.
Brain aneurysms can affect anyone and at any age and are more common in women, with symptoms varying based on whether it’s unruptured or ruptured.
Random noise thrown out to distract us from the flashing signal everywhere: very young and healthy people (elite athletes) are dying while exercising or shortly after winning races.
“Up to 6% of people in the US have an aneurysm in their brain that isn’t bleeding (an unruptured aneurysm). Ruptured brain aneurysms are less common. They occur in approximately 30,000 people in the US per year.”
This is insane.
I’m referring to the writing.
Fire this newspaper!
Tedious academic discussion of the technicalities of statistics and definitions.
She’s dead! And it was the vaccine!
Who is going to prison over this? Where can the family go to sue for damages???
Anyway. The media are lying charlatans.
Why are they cooperating with this hoax that the vaccines aren’t causing it all?
Is it sunk cost fallacy? (Probably a lot of it.) Are they being paid? (Not based on any of the wardrobes of journalists I’ve seen.)
Daniele holds the Mustangs program record for the fastest indoor 200m at 24.69 seconds.
She is also the second fastest all-time in school history in the indoor 60m and the 100m with a time of 11.58 and placed second in the 200m at the 2024 Big West Championships.
Daniele finished 43rd with a wind-aided time of 23.65 at the NCAA West Preliminaries in Arkansas on May 23 in her final collegiate event.
If you took the vaccine, it’s time to retire from running completely.