As the clock winds down on the scoreboard and the Super Bowl game comes to a close, the Denver Broncos celebrate their win with champagne and confetti. However, the losers, the North Carolina Panthers make their way back into the locker room with their heads hanging low from such a devastating loss. All the news and media can talk about for the next week is who won and lost the Super Bowl. For example, the news was all over Cam Newton, and how upset he was in his post game interview about losing one of the most important games of his career. Critics were very inconsiderate to Newton's emotions considering he just lost the game that everyone wants to win. Then weeks go by and the news and media move onto a new sport and new news. Yet, no
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Losing the game can take over each player's life for the next few weeks or even months. For many years now there has been minimal research in athletes and depression, more specifically in college athletes. Studies are now arising showing that 25% of all D1 college athletes are experiencing depression (Drexel University n.p.). These studies show that women and individual sports have high rates of depression due to winning & losing and high expectations. Researchers are just starting to uncover the surface of all the reasons for such a high depression rate in athletes. First, when the Panthers lost, they experienced a rush of sadness of losing the Super Bowl. The players may never let go of this sadness. Fortunately, in team sports players have the ability to blame the loss on others and not all on themselves. However, individual sports, many and most all of the blame on the loss is on the individual. The athlete's input is a direct output on …show more content…
In Drexel University research, researchers came to the conclusion that women were almost two times more likely to experience symptoms than their male peers. I already know this as a girl and playing high school sports can be stressful, so I'm sure college sports will be even harder for women to handle. This is very relevant to my life based off the fact that I will play a college soccer next fall. It can be a very scary thought already knowing the statistics of college athlete students who fall into a depression. As well, to know that there isn't a lot of support for athletes mental well being isn’t very comforting. Out of all sports the highest prevalence of clinically relevant depressive symptoms is female track (Drexel University n.p.) A perfect example for this statistic is the Kelley Holmes who was a well known for her 800 meter and 1500 meter track gold medals at the Athens Olympics. Holmes later then won the Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Mummery s37). Kelley Holmes seemed to be on top of the world, or so we thought. After the Olympics passed she released to the press she struggled with clinical depression she was struggling with. Her battles with depression lead up to her Olympic successes, she let the public in on her graphic example that even elite athletes are susceptible to one of society's largest problems,
Losing the game can take over each player's life for the next few weeks or even months. For many years now there has been minimal research in athletes and depression, more specifically in college athletes. Studies are now arising showing that 25% of all D1 college athletes are experiencing depression (Drexel University n.p.). These studies show that women and individual sports have high rates of depression due to winning & losing and high expectations. Researchers are just starting to uncover the surface of all the reasons for such a high depression rate in athletes. First, when the Panthers lost, they experienced a rush of sadness of losing the Super Bowl. The players may never let go of this sadness. Fortunately, in team sports players have the ability to blame the loss on others and not all on themselves. However, individual sports, many and most all of the blame on the loss is on the individual. The athlete's input is a direct output on …show more content…
In Drexel University research, researchers came to the conclusion that women were almost two times more likely to experience symptoms than their male peers. I already know this as a girl and playing high school sports can be stressful, so I'm sure college sports will be even harder for women to handle. This is very relevant to my life based off the fact that I will play a college soccer next fall. It can be a very scary thought already knowing the statistics of college athlete students who fall into a depression. As well, to know that there isn't a lot of support for athletes mental well being isn’t very comforting. Out of all sports the highest prevalence of clinically relevant depressive symptoms is female track (Drexel University n.p.) A perfect example for this statistic is the Kelley Holmes who was a well known for her 800 meter and 1500 meter track gold medals at the Athens Olympics. Holmes later then won the Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Mummery s37). Kelley Holmes seemed to be on top of the world, or so we thought. After the Olympics passed she released to the press she struggled with clinical depression she was struggling with. Her battles with depression lead up to her Olympic successes, she let the public in on her graphic example that even elite athletes are susceptible to one of society's largest problems,