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the article is about things that we could relate to.Things that we all have in common.the things that every persomor living thing has ,the 4 main topics of this article were physical,emtional ,intellectail,and spiritual self . I say we all have these things because we have bodies ;we have feelings ,we overtink and most of us all pray .

How i personally connected through the story was the examples it gave were about things that i do on a daily basis like over thinking or pray just things kike that were really how i conected through this article.

The article talks about key importances of being human . justlike we have 5 senses it gives a feelings that we havemore emotions .such as physical,emtion,thinking ,and sprit self . things that i really didnt think of until thos article bought to me ,it made me notice these things .the places named by stories is complicated by saying a place but thinking of a story you once told .naming places of storys is hard to do because there are specific stoeies that have a sepicfic landscape but they just call a place a place because it was similar to a story  they have been told .

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The summary of my first source  was the fact of why it's important to help as soon as possible . I say this because there are people such as athletes that are taking their own life .

According to one of the articles I researched “In gender equity engagement, 72% of women's sports participants and 56% of men's sports participants reported actively trying to learn more about gender equity on their own. Fifty-eight percent of women and 46% of men occasionally or frequently had conversations with teammates focused on gender equity. The equity is also as balanced as women's sports .But there has been a spike that has increasingly affected the athletes . The other problem that made these athletes have more mental issues that are already on their plate is the pandemic,” (Greg Johnson). Since athletes had to stop training with a team playing with their team they lost time that could be vital to their athletic career .

 such as high school athletes when they had dreams to dreams of playing at the next level .they didn't have time to be recruited to play at the college level so with that time lost they didn't get to achieve their dreams .When something like that happens they tend to fall in the depressions .that is one of the many reason why we need to help athletes .

NCAA.org. “Mental Health Issues Remain on Minds of Student-Athletes.” NCAA.org, NCAA.org, 26 May 2022, https://www.ncaa.org/news/2022/5/24/media-center-mental-health-issues-remain-on-minds-of-student-athletes.aspx. 

The other source that I found was a video that speaks about mental health of athletes .It was interviewed by Alabama head football coach .I chose this source because it had personal reasons that I could relate to myself .

the things coach saban said in this interview mentioned a lot about football each is the sport i personally enjoy and can relate most to .He said that “college football isn't like any other sport there is a lot of preparation that goes into the team .things that players have to go through just to be overhauled is extreme amount of time that leaves nothing else in there schedule .

 They have so much preparation time just to be on the team . when they do lay there's always risk of injuries even in practice these injuries in football can even amount to death .``nick saban “ I think this stood out to me because there's a lot of risk for athletes to play the game that they love . Student athletes really don't care about those risks because they don't believe in those injuries . 

One thing that concerns coaches all across the board is something called CTE which is “Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive brain condition that's thought to be caused by repeated blows to the head and repeated episodes of concussion. It's particularly associated with contact sports, such as boxing or American football.'' This condition is always running though football players minds because the sport requires you go through contact that has major risks to have this condition .

 He also mentions the importance of academics ,and the importance of being a student athletes sure we here this term “student athlete “ a lot but what does this mean at the collegiate level .according to this interview it means the loss of scholarships .failing classe scan amount to getting cut from the team or even using the scholarships that athletes work for endlessly in high school. He mentions for athletes they never have any free time because they have a constant busy schedule from practices , film study and classes . That can be too much and that could cause athletes to fall into depression.

Another thing that i saw was stress levels that spiked up because of the amount of work from school but also trying to be the best version of yourself in playing your sport. The problem with trying to perfect your craft in youre sport but also trying to be a good student as well . Is time distribution with giving your time to your academic work and practicing . This can be alot for a lot of student athletes because they want to get better at playing as athletes. All we want is to get better and also be eligible to play and exceed expectations in the classroom.

TODAYNBC. “How Coach Nick Saban Helps Athletes Manage Pressure, Mental Health.” YouTube, YouTube, 6 Sept. 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmRh7ln7WU0&t=52s.