HomeOther CU sportsStory CU Buffs athletics, student group, working to make impact in mental health

.....Tompkins was tasked in a psychology class last spring with picking a community she cares about and researching a mental illness that impacts that community. Tompkins` professor suggested that she focus on mental health in sports.

"Is it really that big of a deal?," she thought.....

....."It kind of just opened my eyes to somebody verbalizing what we all go through every day, but then realizing, `OK, some people are hit way harder,`" Tompkins said. "I don`t have depression. I`m very lucky. But a lot of people go through all these things, the same things I go through, and it hits them way harder."......