Original story from the MLive.com: Michigan interim AD Jim Hackett donates half his salary to ‘Athletes Connected’ program By Nick Baumgardner Jim Hackett’s biggest task during his time as Michigan’s interim athletic director was to fix the football program. Last winter, many believe he did exactly that when he was …
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.
