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 …
Read the original story from SwimSwam.com: By Emily Brunemann 1) VALUE YOURSELF When you value yourself at the very core your self-esteem increases. Through this you must treat yourself with kindness and respect. Everyone makes mistakes; everyone fumbles along their life journey. Better understanding that this is normal and not …
Original Story from ViceSports.com By B. David Zarley Adam Kern couldn’t sleep. He was having a difficult freshman year at the University of Michigan, in his hometown of Ann Arbor. There had been the death of a family member, plus the usual oscillation between thrilling freedom and total unmoored terror …
Original Story from ESPN.com By Ashley Scoby | Special to ESPN.com Kally Fayhee was 6 when the water became her safe place. After her family moved to its suburban Chicago home, Fayhee’s parents could hardly keep her out of the pool at the neighborhood YMCA. It was, after all, a …
Original story from the Michigan Daily: Athletes Connected: Fighting the hidden battles By Kelly Hall | Michigan Daily Sports Editor Garrick Roemer was scared. The 17-year-old wasn’t comfortable in the back of the ambulance. He didn’t want to be there, and on the surface, it didn’t look like he belonged …
