With an increased realization of the connection between physical and mental health, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) released a Mental Health Best Practices guide in 2016 that offered recommendations, resources and procedures for coaches, athletic departments, administrators, athletic trainers and others to assist student athletes with mental health related […]
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Student athletes’ mental health has its importance highlighted
Photo courtesy of Inzmam Khan, Pexels. On the checklist of everything a college athlete must succeed at, mental health is usually not included. Instead, mental health is becoming the quiet crisis in college sports. Alarmingly, a recent National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) study found that college athletes will experience more […]