Final Presentation

Okay, I'm gonna power through this as

as hard as I possibly can apologize for my

microphone recording off of micro apple apple microphone.

So I don't know how good my microphone quality is, but that is my final presentation.

I decided to focus on the mental health crisis and collegiate athletics.

Let's get started.

This is my introduction to my argument.

This is the

title page.

I'm gonna add an add on or linked to this.

Uh this video is 10 minutes long, I only have 15 minutes to run. So um

I'm going to add something there.

This gives good insight to a daily routine of a college athletes life.

I would definitely look into the

I'm gonna add, I'm gonna add some things so you guys have access to it.

My intended audience for this paper was towards

the social and behavioral sciences of the university.

Uh They have the psychology expertise needed to uh cater towards uh

the mental wellness and mental illnesses

of different student athletes and different

collegian athletes saying the president of

the university was also intended from audience

because they they can implement the right rules and the right changes

that can uh that needs to be taken in place to help alleviate

poor mental illness of those college athletes.

Uh Same thing with athletic directors,

whereas the president of the university

university focuses on the whole university.

Uh the athletic director's focus on the main aspect

of the sports of the university and I feel like

they could uh provide services and they could provide

help and ideas of what can be done to uh

and to help alleviate those those problems in the

in the mental health crisis of college athletes.

I have the JdC president at the very top at the

two people on the bottom are the athletic directors of J.

J. C.

So those are the people who I wanted to also.

I wanted the people I wanted the department

chairs of the social and behavioral sciences to

hear me out because that's my that's my field that I'm interested in and I want

to communicate to them about how to alleviate this.

Um

So my research question was what can universities do to

help alleviate uh poor mental wellness and college athletics?

Uh The reason why I picked this was society

perceives elite athletes as superhuman beings with great strength,

willpower skills and abilities and strength that

other people can only aspire to have

the concept that athletes are only human being.

Makes makes it harder to understand that there are people

who struggle with similar health illnesses and problems that the general

population deals with. People don't really take into.

Ah

They don't take into effect that

students that athletes are human beings,

more people are concerned about how athletes play and how

they perform rather than how they feel or they rather

care about their own and off the field Antics rather

than how they feel and why what leads them to

That behavior.

So it's even worse with student athletics when those

athletes also dealing with school on top of that.

So that's why I picked that this topic uh also,

approximately 30% of women and 25% of men who are student

athletes report having anxiety and only 10% of all college athletes with

known mental health conditions seek care from a mental health professional.

So 10% of those, 30% of women and 25% of them there,

don't see. Let me seek help

at all. Like

that's an alarming number of college athletes who are

struggling with mental health conditions and aren't seeking help.

So, I feel like

that's why that's why I

I want to discuss this argument.

So that is the ending the vet.

Okay, so when it comes to addressing the issue, uh,

college athletes,

I mean, athletes in general,

the mental health aspect doesn't really get recognized

until it's very until it's too late.

Uh an example of this identifying the issue is Chris Benoit,

Chris Benoit was a professional wrestler for W.

W we WCW new Japan pro wrestling ec W Uh, for over a span of 20 years

uh, towards the tail end of his career,

Chris has suffered for more than 15 concussions.

Uh he was

on steroids uh,

and his friend Eddie Guerrero had passed away due to heart failure from prior

drug usage that destroyed Chris Benoit and

that triggered something in Chris Benoit uh

2 2.22 years later,

where all those factors combined lead to one day in 2007 in June where he ended up

escalating into an argument with his wife nancy and

ended up murdering her and then ended up murdering

Chris Benoit ended up murdering his son Daniel Benoit.

Which right after then he ended up killing himself.

So and none of those factors came in the light until it was too late. So

uh that's why I just

uh this is like a huge deal because athletes mental health care doesn't really

good

brought in the recognition doesn't get brought to light until it's really too late.

So

so when addressing this issue I decided to like

you break

the student athletes life down in the two parts.

So I decided to break it down into the academic part and

I decided to break it down and athletic park and I decided to

pick out of those parts what are the key factors to lead to poor mental health?

One of the main issues is the academic portion of a collegiate athletes life.

The minimum G. P. A. Required to g. To compete at an N. C. Double A.

Division one level is a 2.3 G. P. A. And an improved core courses and earn a S. A. T.

Score of a 900

an S A T. S. C. T. Score of 75 to be eligible.

The pressure to succeed in an academic setting is held to a higher standard for

student athletes because since they need to represent

the tradition and culture of their university,

my maintaining and

accident and excellent

academic profile, the schedule of a

college student can be or unorganized and quite strenuous. Yeah, because

and they had to deal with all these classes and they

deal with the full time job also right after that.

So it's kind of, it can be really hard to balance.

Also,

these strenuous schedules of these collegiate athletes could lead them

to spend a lot of time in their sports,

so this could lead them to be behind

and those classes and those assignments that they

need to be eligible to play their sport

in and it causes a lot of stress and unnecessary stress and anxiety and you know,

it just,

I feel like the academic portion is really, really strenuous towards the

the college athletes life.

Also, college athletes have to deal with the constant mental pressure,

constant mental pressure from their coaches,

their teammates in their schools, sometimes their families and friends to do good,

not only do you good on the field, which by the way,

they're also endorsements now that uh the college athletes

can sign now too if they're good there,

if they're really good at their sport, they can actually sign endorsement deals,

which they can get compensation for.

So not only are they getting judged as like athletes,

they're getting judged as businesses now because businesses are willing to speak,

like

invest their money

into an athlete

that they think is going to be good

and, and, and the college level like that.

That's, that's just crazy to even think about.

And you know, that constant judgment and perception can, you know,

lead to unnecessary pressure for these student athletes,

especially with the endorsements and everything else. Because now

you have all these players thinking about monetary compensation,

you also have to deal with the pressure of being good, performing good on the field,

performing good off the field, like being a good citizen, being a good role model,

staying out of trouble,

being a good student maintaining a great academic portfolio.

Like the mental pressure of a student athlete is, is elevated.

It's, it's really elevated.

It can get to the point to where

It could lead someone to leave their sport.

Like Ricky Williams, Ricky Williams was really, really,

really highest prospect in the 1999 NFL draft.

To the point where Mike Ditka, that's the head coach right next to him, uh traded

all of his picks just to get him. So that's immense pressure right off the bat

that

if you're willing to trade all of your picks just to go in on all on one player,

that's a tremendous pressure on that one player, you're saying that that yeah,

is the future and you have no doubt in your mind that that guy is the future.

That's a ton of pressure from

the fans of that organization,

A ton of pressure from the teammates of that organization,

A ton of pressure from that organization in general,

A ton of pressure from the league because now all

eyes warn you because that's never been done before.

So Ricky Williams

always has struggled internally with, you know, constant judgment. Uh,

so when he first came to the NFL, you know, he was like,

you know, he was socially anxious,

he had his mask on and he was looked at as weird and

quiet and the the media didn't really like that perspective of them.

So they criticized him and they chastised them.

So it was to the point to where it was really affected

him that he started to smoke marijuana and NFL at the time didn't

and still marijuana rule. I mean, they had marijuana rules and still, so

when he got caught with

marijuana with marijuana and it's dry and it's doping test,

uh he obviously got suspended

and when he got suspended,

the news came out and then the media scrutinized them for being this pot user,

this pothead or for smoking this weed and I

eventually left him to leave his sport

because it was just,

he couldn't deal with the negative media attention anymore.

Like he loved the sport, but he just couldn't, he couldn't deal with,

he couldn't deal with

the pressure. The media added onto him because he was constantly under pressure.

And yeah, this was a prime example of how like mental pressure can get to an athlete

Uh sadly leads to an issue that has happened this year, Katie Meyer,

who was a promising goalkeeper who contributed significantly to her team,

winning the National Championship in 2019.

She was a Stanford goalkeeper on the women's soccer

team who unfortunately passed away earlier this year,

she uh committed suicide.

Uh The defecating Meyer revealed that she was dealing with a mental health crisis.

She was constantly under pressure to do well

in athletics and academics at the university.

Uh like I said before, the constant pressure of doing well, performing well,

you can get to college athlete, It's really stressful and really anxious.

Her mother said,

not a lot of people knew her mother stated that there was a

lot of she said that there was anxiety and stress to be perfect,

but she was always she was always happy, she was always at her happiest.

So that that's

that goes back to what I said.

Not a lot of people, the college athletes are willing to come out

to explain the pressures and the illnesses and what

they have to go through every single day.

It's a

just play.

And uh you know,

uh in stanford responded to my tragedy by making

massive improvement improvement of student athletes mental health awareness.

Just the students,

the university stated that they have started beginning uh they had

begun recruiting additional clinical

counseling and therapy and therapy positions. This also goes back to what I said.

Like

athletes,

mental health doesn't really get taken as seriously

as it should until it's too late.

So

it's a really sad story. But that is the conclusion

to my addressing the issue.

I'm gonna eventually going to have to make another part

for my annotated bibliography and my time a model.

So

stay under solutions to that problem.

So stay tuned.

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