…..“The biggest thing with professional athletes, with high-level collegiate athletes — and coaches, too — they can prepare, they can sit there and come up with a game plan and figure out what’s going on for a lot of complex situations. But when you have something that you can’t control, there’s an unknown, you can only do so much. That’s where the real challenge is,” said Sean Quinn, director of mental conditioning at the Moawad Group......
…..Although they’re on a “pedestal” as public figures, Hoffner said, athletes experience the same anxiety, stress and depression as anyone else. This summer’s uncertainty could’ve complicated emotions for football players, whose brains are wired to control what they can, mental health advocate and former SU men’s basketball player Trevor Cooney said.
“That’s how we’re trained, really,” Cooney said. “Our minds work like that, which is great, except for right now … You don’t really have people you can turn to who’ve been through this before to help us. So that makes it really tough.”
...moreBethany`s Notes: Preparing for the unknown...when the season will start, how many games you will play, what happens if school goes virtual again, etc....these are all things HS and college athletes face this year. Let`s help our athletes learn to be flexible in any situation.
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