Just Miss Everything About Him”: Cochrane Lacrosse Player Dies in Motocross Accident
Cochrane, Alberta – June 11, 2025
The hum of the town was different now. Slower. Heavier. It lingered around the high school gymnasium, hung low over the lacrosse field where his footprints still seemed visible in the dust, and rolled out across the foothills where the wildflowers had just started to bloom.
Seventeen-year-old Tyler Maddox wasn’t the kind of person you forgot. That’s what everyone kept saying. It didn’t feel real—couldn’t be real. Not Tyler.
“He was sunshine,” said his best friend, Jacob Tran, standing on the fringe of the lacrosse field, his cleats digging absently into the grass. “He never did anything halfway. On the field, off the field. If he loved something, you knew. If he loved you, you knew.”
Tyler died last Saturday afternoon after a motocross accident in the hills just west of Cochrane. It was a ride like any other—one he’d made dozens of times before. Friends said he’d been prepping for a small local race. He wasn’t reckless, they said. He just loved the speed, the challenge, the dirt in his teeth and the wind in his face.
“He was careful,” his older sister Emily said, through a thin veil of tears. “He always wore his helmet, always checked his gear twice. But… something went wrong.”
The details remain under investigation, but according to those who arrived first at the sc
