U.S. team show jumper Cathleen Driscoll is recovering at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta following a fall last month at a show in Deauville, France.

Driscoll and Idalgo fell at the first fence in the jump-off for the $69,000 Sotheby’s International Realty Grand Prix at the Sotheby’s International Realty Deauville CSIO3* on June 22. Driscoll, 32, was airlifted to Caen University Hospital where she was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury. She flew to the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on July 7 and was transferred to the Shepherd Center when a bed opened up three days later.

According to Rachel Wilks, secretary for Plain Bay Farm where Driscoll serves as the main rider, Driscoll’s main focus is improving the mobility in her left leg and her right wrist, both problems that stem from the TBI. She hopes to transition from inpatient to outpatient treatment at the Shepherd Center by mid-August, and after four to six weeks of outpatient therapy, she hopes to move back to her home base in Middleburg, Virginia, to continue physical therapy.

“She has very busy days,” said Wilks. “She usually starts therapy around 8 [a.m.] and is going until 4 or 5 [p.m.]. Saturdays she does a half day of therapy, and she’s off on Sunday. Right now she’s working on physical therapy and balance.

“She’s been on the phone and texting quite a bit,” she added.

Driscoll won the USHJA Emerging Athletes Program National Training Session in 2018, which helped her get a job with Katie and Henri Prudent at their Plain Bay Farm, based in Middleburg, Virginia, and Wellington, Florida, the next year. She worked her way up from grooming to being the main rider at Plain Bay Farm, and she’s represented the United States on Nations Cups teams. At Plain Bay she has several competition horses, and she also rides sales horses and client horses.

After the June accident, friends and clients set up a fundraising page to help collect donations for Driscoll’s medical expenses.

“Plain Bay has amazing clients and friends that helped get her back to the U.S. and set up her fundraising site,” Wilks said. “The whole community has been so supportive in so many ways.”