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When I was fifteen years old, I was blessed with the opportunity to leave my home and pursue elite baseball. This opportunity was afforded to me by my parents who made the decision to uproot [...]

It was fall of my 6th grade year, so I must have been twelve years old or so when I first realized something was wrong. As I laid in bed trying to go to sleep my chest began to tighten, it [...]

My name is Andrew Clark and I currently play collegiate baseball. Despite the highs of having the opportunity to play collegiate baseball, you’ll have to overcome the lows which is the hardest [...]

When people see me, they see a hard-working undergraduate student and athlete. Many think that I have it all together because I’m on a team and/or have above-average grades. What they do [...]

My name is Jonathan Cumpston, and I’m a 33-year old Player Development baseball coach and Scout from Norfolk, Virginia. My story is no different, or greater than any one else who battles and [...]

In the summer after fifth grade, I was in the car with my family driving up to Niagara Falls. All of a sudden, I felt my throat clench up and I couldn’t eat, drink, or even swallow. The lump in [...]

I am a retired NCAA D1 pitcher and my brain was the toughest hitter I ever faced. When playing competitive baseball as a teenager in a sport that promises failure, my teenage brain struggled to [...]

Many have said they can’t imagine ever being so down as to want to kill themselves. Others of you understand all too well what depression in its severest forms can do to your thinking. The [...]

On April 8, 2016, I read a Facebook post reporting that Ex-Kansas University football player Brandon Bourbon committed suicide. “Oh no…no, no, no,” I whispered back at the screen. You would have [...]

By China McCarney My name is China McCarney and I have been blessed with an anxiety disorder. How can you say that? “Blessed” with an anxiety disorder? Of course I did not always look at my [...]