Eden started competitive swimming at six years old and was soon training with club and high school teams. She also competed in lacrosse and track. During Thanksgiving break of her freshman year at Florida State, she went boating off the coast of Naples, Florida with some childhood friends. While anchored, she dove into a sandbar, and the impact, coupled with the bumpy ride back to the dock, severed her spinal cord at C5-6. After two weeks in the ICU and six months of inpatient and outpatient rehab at Shepherd Center, Eden said, “the hardest part wasn't just surviving the injury, it was figuring out how to build a life after it.”

She went back to college and graduated in May 2025 with a BA in Psychology from Georgia State. She also started swimming again and competes at US Paralympic Swim meets across the country; is an SCI rehab peer mentor and has been a motivational speaker at Shepherd Center fundraising events. At Shepherd she works as a Research Assistant in the Keeping Adolescents and Young Adults Connected (KAYAC) program, developing an app to provide young SCI patients with support.