UNCUT Madison will help UW student-athletes share stories outside of the athletic arena

.....A member of the men’s soccer team has been working on a journal for the last three years detailing his mental health struggles.

Hancock explained the reason the athlete decided to share his story.

“He said: ‘I never knew how to share it with anyone,” Hancock said. ‘I don’t have huge social media following. Everything I see about Wisconsin sports has to do with statistics, how many goals we score. But this is the first place that I feel, because it is athlete-led, you guys understand me and will give me a safe place to amplify the story.’”

Hancock noted she was inspired last summer to see UW athletes from different backgrounds and different sports involved in a unity march on campus.

“We want to be a mechanism, a platform that fuels that fire and keeps that momentum going,” she said, “empowering athletes to talk about race, mental health, passions outside of sports......

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Bethany`s Notes: An opportunity for student athletes at UW-Madison to share their own personal stories on their own platform. I`m excited to see the upcoming stories.