Read the original column from The Daily Pennsylvanian By Laine Higgins Being a student-athlete is hard. Plain and simple. And when it comes to mental health, student-athletes are not necessarily more at risk than their peers. Research done at the University of Washington by Dr. Ashmin Rao has shown that …
Read the entire story on The Players’ Tribune By Jayne Appel-Marinelli, retired WNBA player An excerpt: From the outside, we looked like a perfect, well-oiled machine. We were the family that people hoped to have. Until the cops came. That was the first time I realized something wasn’t quite so …
Allison Schmitt a native of Canton, Michigan, is heading to her third Olympic Games. However, the past four years on her journey to making this Olympic berth were much different than the previous two Olympic cycles. Allison opens up to the world and speaks candidly about her battle …
Read the original story on The Huffington Post By Maddie Crum 4,990. That’s roughly how many hours any given Olympic hopeful spent training between the London Games and now, hurdling, sprinting or vaulting toward her goals, flicking beads of sweat out of her line of vision. Practice can mean maintaining …
Read the original story from Vice Sports By B. David Zarley Consider elite athletes. They are, in an incontrovertible and empirical sense, endowed—blessed with gifts that dwarf those of the rest of us, most obviously in the corporeal department: frames like buildings, ballistic arrays of muscle fiber, hand-eye coordination and …
