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 …
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. …
