How Penn can better care for its student-athletes

....From my first year at Penn, I believe that it is not just the pressure of performing as an athlete that puts our health at stake. It`s the toxic competitiveness and an insatiable desire to outperform everybody around you that permeate Penn`s hypercompetitive culture. Collegiate sports, at Penn and elsewhere, foster and heighten insecurities and feelings of inadequacy that can devolve into anxiety and depression. What’s unique about athletics at Penn is that the stakes feel that much higher....

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Bethany`s Notes: I post these articles to let the voice of student athletes be heard. This is their personal experience whether you agree or not it is important to highlight how they are experiencing college life. Are you putting the pressure on?