From SwimSwam.com: HEART OF A CHAMPION AWARD: EMILY BRUNEMANN, KALLY FAYHEE, AND ATHLETES CONNECTED, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 2015 began with a dark cloud over the sport, as a run of suicides by young swimmers weighed heavy on swimmers’ hearts across the nation. The list included the deaths of two very …
University of Michigan student-athletes Beth Williams (Water Polo, ’15), Emily Browning (Water Polo, ’17), and Maddy Frost (Swimming, ’17) had a message and an idea. Amidst their demanding lives as student-athletes at an elite academic institution, they decided mental health was important enough to them to do something about it. …
Read the original article on SwimSwam.com By Emily Brunemann As I have written and spoken about, everyone falls on a spectrum of well-being. I like to think about this spectrum as a ruler, on which you may slide up and down. Some days we feel like a 10 and some …
In partnership with Athletes Connected, University of Michigan swimmer Maddie Frost and water polo student-athlete Emily Browning produced a 90-second video about mental health awareness. Included are several other student-athletes from multiple sports.
From Sports Illustrated: Michael Phelps is one of the most decorated athletes of all-time, with an all-time best 18 Olympic Gold Medals to along with a laundry list of world records and other accomplishments. Phelps is also human, which makes him susceptible to struggle, something he knows intimately. In a …
