[2006alum]

In the late 90s I started advising freshmen at Stanford. One of my early students was a boy from Singapore — English kid whose father was a businessman there — who was pretty convinced he had only gotten in because he was a rower. Then he got to Stanford and realized he really didn’t want to be on the crew, so he quit. I think he worried after that that he really couldn’t hack it, but he wound up doing fine. I think the allowances made at Stanford for athletes are moderate enough that most of them can do fine — I just worry about some of them trying to deal with the demands of their sport at the same time that they’re trying to deal with the academic demands.

". . . .like juggling with knives." Kelly Caitlin, the Stanford cyclist who committed suicide last week, referring to the demands of balancing personal goals and athletics.

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a...c-cyclist/

Wow, I hadn't realized that she'd had a serious concussion and was suffering from headaches and intolerance to light. I wonder how much of a role that might have played in her altered mental state, because it sounds like the severity of her circumstances exacerbated substantially after that fall. What a sad, sad story.

[2006alum]

In the late 90s I started advising freshmen at Stanford. One of my early students was a boy from Singapore — English kid whose father was a businessman there — who was pretty convinced he had only gotten in because he was a rower. Then he got to Stanford and realized he really didn’t want to be on the crew, so he quit. I think he worried after that that he really couldn’t hack it, but he wound up doing fine. I think the allowances made at Stanford for athletes are moderate enough that most of them can do fine — I just worry about some of them trying to deal with the demands of their sport at the same time that they’re trying to deal with the academic demands.

". . . .like juggling with knives." Kelly Caitlin, the Stanford cyclist who committed suicide last week, referring to the demands of balancing personal goals and athletics.

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a...c-cyclist/

Wow, I hadn't realized that she'd had a serious concussion and was suffering from headaches and intolerance to light. I wonder how much of a role that might have played in her altered mental state, because it sounds like the severity of her circumstances exacerbated substantially after that fall. What a sad, sad story.