Sailors Supporting Sailors

Sailors Supporting Sailors is a new club here at Hen Hud for our student-athletes to bring awareness to mental health issues. As the athletic trainer, I was seeing athletes struggling during the fall to balance everything and for some it was affecting their performance. I spoke to Tom Baker and our principal, James Mackin about wanting to create a club or something where student-athletes could come and talk about mental health issues and learn how to spot issues in themselves as well as their teammates. From that, Sailors Supporting Sailors was born. Our first meeting was 3/28/2022. We meet 2 times a month and we have about 28 student-athletes that have attended. They are all athletes on a spring team at the moment. My goal for next year is to have athletes from all season, not just the athletes that are in season.

Below is our mission and goals:

Mission: Sailors Supporting Sailors’ mission is to bring awareness to the mental health issues that can arise for athletes and their teammates.

 

Goals:

• To educate athletes about mental health issues that can develop due to various variables: ie: injury, academic pressure, the pandemic, the college process, peer pressure, parental pressure, athletic performance pressure, potential addiction to just name a few

• To educate about ways to help cope with these variables and stress

•  To promote the philosophies of The Harris Project – CODA and 15 for Life foundations