#student athlete

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #basketball #agc.andy #student athlete

[flowersandemptyvoids]

What I've realized about being an athlete at a very rigorous school is that my sport is my non-academic life. I've been thinking of it wrong for a while, dividing things into school, sport, and life. But I don't have time to divide sport and life anymore. In terms of balance, my academics take up most of the day and the rest is my sport. What I do in my free time is my sport. My days look like classes, practice, and my remaining time is devoted to studying. I used to yearn for a time during the day during which to "live" as well, but this quarter (my school is on the quarter system) I am taking more classes than ever and can no longer afford to spend any free time *not* studying. Therefore I am reframing my mindset to see time spent at practice as my life and not just my sport. My sport is becoming my reason for enjoying the day, my time to socialize, and my time to live. It helps that most of my friends are on the team anyway, but this mindset is making practice time so much more valuable and helping me enjoy my sport more. I don't *have* to go to practice, I *get* to go to practice. It's a life of dedication that has become incredibly fulfilling for me.

#college #student athlete #grind

[top-secret-suicide]

In the last month, 3 high profile D1 student athletes have taken their own life.  Mental health needs to be talked about more in general, but especially amongst student athletes.  The pressure these athletes face is unreal.  So how do we fix this? It's a long process, but one thing we can absolutely do is change how we coach kids.

Years ago, kids grew up playing every sport for the sole purpose of being outside with friends.  Today? Kids as young as 6 are so heavily focused on one sport.  We have national rankings of 6yr olds in a specific sport, like why does that even exist?! Too many parents want to live through their kids.  I get it, you want your kids to grow up to be the next LeBron James or the next Serena Williams... sure we all wish that could be the case, but there's a reason there's only 1 Lebron or 1 Serena out of billions of people.  That should never be the end goal or expectation.  We need to go back to the days where kids played sports to be kids, let kids be athletes, let them play 4 different sports so they can hangout with friends.  The fact is, 99.99% of young athletes will not go pro... even fewer will be amongst the elite of the professional ranks.  That should not be the goal. 

At some point, the athletes will stop playing, they will hangup their jerseys and be a regular person... but when that sport is all they've done for 10-15 years, what do they do? It's all they've known their entire childhood. This is the problem we find ourselves in now... student athletes think their identity is in the sport they play and not who they are as a person, and when that sport is gone, they are lost. They don't know what to do or who they are. Will people care once they hangup the jersey? Will they be thought of the same? We all will say of course.  But the truth is, the athlete doesn't see that.  They don't hear that.  Because for years, they were led to believe it was dependent on their sport. We need to show/coach young athletes from the start that their identity is NOT in the sport they're playing, but rather who they're on the inside. This starts by stopping the specification of sports at such a young age. Kids need to play multiple sports.

We need to remember that behind the jersey is a human, a kid, a person.  So when they mess up, hug them, don't get mad at them.  Lebron James makes mistakes every game he plays.  I'm not saying to baby them, that everything is perfect... cuz that's not reality.  But there is a fine line between helping them learn to deal with adversity and failure and putting them under undue stress and anxiety to perform.  So when they make a mistake, teach them... but do it with love and empathy, cuz after all they're humans.

#mental health #student athlete

[sleepyleftistdemon]

NAACP leader Derrick Johnson has urged Black student-athletes to reconsider attending universities in Florida amid its crackdown on DEI, which includes new legislation barring schools from using federal or state funds on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. In a letter addressed to current and future student-athletes, NBC reported that Johnson implored them to “choose wisely” about which institution they want to rake in millions for. “Diversity, equity, and inclusion are paramount to ensuring equitable and effective educational outcomes,” he said. “The value Black and other college athletes bring to large universities is unmatched.” Johnson told Black athletes they shouldn’t attend universities that “are unable to completely invest” in them. The new anti-DEI legislation, passed in January at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis, has already led the state’s flagship institution, the University of Florida, to eliminate all DEI positions last week—a move that was condemned by NFL legend Emmitt Smith, an alumni of the university. “I’m utterly disgusted by UF’s decision and the precedent that it sets,” he said, adding that history shows that “a team of leaders all made up of the same background” don’t always “make the right decision when it comes to equality and diversity.”

Maybe do that for ALL red states...

#naacp #florida #student athlete #dei

[coachrich8]

Adapting from Club/High School Sports to the Next Level: Unexpected Challenges of Mindset and Mental Health

The transition from club or high school sports to a more competitive level, like college or professional leagues, is often framed as a thrilling step filled with athletic and academic opportunities. While those aspects hold true, the adjustment can also reveal unforeseen challenges related to mindset and mental health. This article delves into the hidden hurdles young athletes might face and…

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#collegiate athletes #ncaa #soccer parents #sports parents #student athlete #youth coaching #youth sports

[allthingsannablaman]

One of Anna Blaman's most impactful and moving short stories. Her other great stories seriously need screen representations. Yet here is one that resonates.

"Spelen of Sterven" (1990) aka "To Play or to Die.

In this short motion picture, schoolboy Kees is intelligent, introvert and sensitive, but gets ridiculed verbally and physically at an all-boys school by mindlessly cocky class mates and even insensitive teachers, especially in gym, where his physical weakness is mercilessly abused to make him a defenseless laughing stock in front of his smirking peers. His awakening sexual interest goes to boys, and in particular to Charel, a beautiful athletic classmate who probably feels an undetermined interest but would never risk admitting (possibly not even to himself) having any gay or bi appreciation, least of all for a 'sissy', and thus remains unresponsive to shy Kees' overtures. When the hunk finally comes over to Kees' place while his parents are away, a desperate disappointment with a tragical twist is in the making...

#cinema gay #nudity #schoolboy crush #gymnastics #gay teen #coming of age #hilversum #holland #trapeze #bullying #student athlete #gay short film #mental health #self loathing #boxing #locker room #high school #annablaman #queer #frank krom #1990s films #decade: 1950s #tragedy #gay twink #teen masturbatiom #tjebbo gerritsma #geert hunaerts #teen angst #queer platonic attraction #lust

[mumblesplash]

(teaching my art class)

me: and what’s the number one rule when designing characters with wings? …well?

a handful of students, sighing reluctantly: no good fa-

me (interrupting them): NO good-faith attempts at realism, EVER. you want all the bird dweebs and physicists jumping ship as EARLY AS POSSIBLE so they’re not around to cinemasins your ass when you get to the cool parts of your story, and…ugh, what now, gerald

gerald (my least favorite student): why not just do some minimal research instead of-

me: listen you little shit i can and will singlehandedly tank your 4.0 gpa

#mumbling #don’t worry i’m not actually an art teacher i would never #no one deserves that #the art class is a metaphor #man when i was in high school i did NOT fully register how messed up it was that teachers could just do that #like the gym teacher at my school would give straight-A 4.0 students bad grades as some kind of power trip #for underperforming on athletic tests she didn't even pretend to prepare us for

[recreation-law]

Florida Appellate court throws out release signed by student-athlete who died because release was not written according to the requirements of Florida law.

Poorly written release that failed to stop claim by the family of a deceased scholarship athlete Estate of Blakely v. Stetson Univ. (Fla. App. 2022) State: Florida; Florida Court of Appeals, Fifth District Plaintiff: THE ESTATE OF NICHOLAS ADAM BLAKELY, BY AND THROUGH MICHELLE WILSON, AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE Defendant: STETSON UNIVERSITY, INC Plaintiff Claims: Defendant Defenses:…

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#Exculpatory clause #Football #Negligence #Release #Stetson University #student athlete #Waiver

[sudden-stops-kill]

nil store

#nil store #ncaa #nil #tee #hoodie #sweatshirt #numbered #student athlete

[spaceandrobots]

#study #studious #student athlete #gamergirl #💯🤡🤪

[ecodyke]

Me: “you have to start easy and work your way back into vigorous exercise after coming off a surgery.” “Your legs weren’t lifting for 5 months give ‘em a break!” “Only one ankle is fixed, you have to be careful with the other screwed up one so you don’t mess up your knee.

Brain: “you lifted this before you can do it again” and then I’m crying at the gym because I feel like little shrimps mcgimps bc I can only comfortably squat 95lbs instead of the usual 150.

And running is hard too bc I haven’t been running for 5 months either and it’s like literally starting from scratch. I haven’t had to do this ever.

I keep telling myself that I just have to be mentally tough enough to handle starting over from scratch, getting through the season, getting surgery on my other ankle, and doing this process all over again.

And yet I still feel like I suck and I could do better.

#student athlete #weightlifting #mental struggle

[transmutationisms]

(If you're alrght with another poorly articulated question from an obnoxious high schooler) Do you have thoughts on academics and their position in a labor framework? I know some grad students and have never been quite sure where they fit because they don't always work with "capital" in a traditional sense. Professors are odd to me because they are under university contract, but rather than get paid by the university they often get their own funding from the government. Or graduate sudents, who are often unionized, but I know a paleontology student who studies shark fossils who says he doesnt really consider what he does "making surplus value."

ok well that last person is simply confused lol. graduate students exist because the university profits from having us; it is a capitalist institution. most directly we usually work as teaching assistants or research assistants (or else pay tuition) and more indirectly, graduate programs get funding and university support because their existence contributes to a university's rankings, prestige factor, &c, which is to say its (perceived) profitability. plenty of us study things that don't produce much directly lucrative research, but this does not mean the university keeps us around for shits and giggles or some kind of laudatory interest in knowledge for its own sake. it is a capitalist institution and acts in the financial interest of its owners / beneficiaries.

anyway wrt faculty members, they are also employed by the university because it profits from them (or hopes to, anyway). i think many people get confused by tenureship; tenure is indeed fairly cushy as far as employment contracts go, but it is is still an employment contract, and most faculty are not actually tenured anyway. academics are a classic example of the 'professional-managerial class', which is not a marxian term but is a useful one for identifying those 'upper-middle class' members differentiated by their professional qualifications and status; the prestige and perceived utility of academic knowledge production is partially what makes academics an attractive target for a lot of government and NGO funding. state funding of academic research ofc has numerous functions but, and not to put too fine a point on it, a capitalist state also invests money in things because it is hoping for some kind of return on investment, eg in the form of directly profitable inventions, soft power, &c.

there are distinctions here between different academic employment statuses. an adjunct or contingent hire is paid by the university solely to teach, making their labourer status fairly straightforward. with tenured or tenure-track positions, yes there may also be money coming from outside; however, this doesn't negate the fact that the university is trying to profit from its faculty (else it wouldn't hire them). the professional-managerial class has certain characteristics of both proletariat and bourgeoisie, and there is some variation between academics as a very select few do attain the kind of household name status that can turn them into basically a personal brand. again though: the university wants to extract value from the work (both teaching and research) of academics it hires, and so do outside sources of funding for research projects. knowledge production should not be mystified or abstracted in ways that obfuscate the financial interests of involved parties; though it attains a prestige that few other commodities do, this is still a process that is embedded within the overall operating logics of capitalism.

an additional consideration wrt internal academic class politics is that many faculty use graduate students, postdocs, and even undergrads to perform or assist with their research. these arrangements vary in structure (and between disciplines) but in general, this does mean that many academics produce papers, books, &c that depend upon the labour of many people and rarely compensate these people equally to themselves. this can take the form of a more overtly employer-employee relationship between a professor and their underlings (for example, some labs are run this way) or it can be the case that it's another party (a publisher, say) who is reaping most of the surplus value squeezed from grad / undergrad / postdoc labour. in any case it is important to keep in mind that professors can and often do take on employer (ie, small capitalist) roles in relation to other employees of the university, even though the professors themselves are there because the university and other institutions pay them and profit from their labour.

i hope this is a useful start; obviously there is lots else to be said about the economics of the university and knowledge production as a capitalist process. in general when you are trying to think through this my advice would be not to let the presentation of the university as some kind of cerebral place of enlightenment confuse a materialist analysis of the flows of capital. plenty of workers and capitalists deal with commodities that are immaterial in the sense that 'knowledge' is, or are imbued with similar social meaning and value; the university deals with knowledge production but this does not make it any less an employer (ie, a capitalist institution) than any other institution operating in a capitalist context.

#unionisation is another thing rly---university union politics are kind of atrocious generally lmfao #v rare to find solidarity between academics---even grad students---and other employees of the university like support staff or athletes #ofc many grad students consider themselves not employees but temporarily embarassed PMC. so #academia

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I need to move to another city, my nice gothy outfits are wasted here in boston

#everyone here is white and dresses like a student athlete :/

[kitnita]

logan’s biggest contribution to the team, bar none, is effortlessly making wyatt seem like even more of a dork than i’d already assumed he was

#hockey #stars #dallas stars #wyatt johnston #logan stankoven #godddd like they fight over video games and who gets to drive them around #in another life they’re sophomore year roommates whomst the rest of their floor finds mildly insufferable #but instead of being cringefail college students they are absurdly talented professional athletes. beautiful.