Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention in Student-Athletes

The last person most people would think struggled with mental illness was Remington Young. Remi was a beautiful young woman with a bright future. She was an all-star cheerleader in middle and high school and cheer captain by her sophomore year of college.

The life of this star athlete at the University of Kansas ended tragically when Remi took her own life in 2022. A quote from the website at lovelikeremi.com says, “All aspects of Remi pointed toward a happy, healthy and cheerful life, and that is the way she wanted it to be … If you asked 100 people to describe Remi, depressed most likely would not have been a descriptor used by any individual. To others she was a light, a lifeline and a saving grace, but behind closed doors she was a girl fighting a very dark disease.”

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