Penn Athletics should follow Michigan’s lead, work harder to address athletes’ mental health

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 …

Vice Sports: Inside U-M’s New Approach to Mental Health for Athletes

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 …