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per Megan:
Smith said he had one-on-one sessions with Dr. Carly Anderson, the athletic department’s director of sport psychology. Gophers coach P.J. Fleck has been a longtime advocate for mental health and made has Saturday a Mental Health Awareness game.
“I think football culturally has been, ‘Hey, be the tough guy, toughen up, you’re all right,’ ” Smith said. “So I shied away from it at first.”
Anderson said resisting vulnerability is a common reaction from men. But the Gophers athletics department preaches how strong people use whatever resources they can to be at their best.
Smith’s experience helped pull him from his low point and might have played a part in making him an even better player than he was before the injury. He has climbed to third on the school’s all-time rushing list, with 3,745 yards, and ranks ninth nationally this season with 112.29 rushing yards per game.
“He is running really hard, and he is seeing things really well. He’s patient when he needs to be patient. He’s sudden and triggering when he needs to trigger,” Fleck said. “So he’s better than he used to be. It’s not the old Rodney. It’s a new Rodney, which is very different than the old Rodney in a really good way.”
http://www.startribune.com/how-rodn...te-to-reach-new-gophers-high-point/563871162/
Go Gophers!!
Smith said he had one-on-one sessions with Dr. Carly Anderson, the athletic department’s director of sport psychology. Gophers coach P.J. Fleck has been a longtime advocate for mental health and made has Saturday a Mental Health Awareness game.
“I think football culturally has been, ‘Hey, be the tough guy, toughen up, you’re all right,’ ” Smith said. “So I shied away from it at first.”
Anderson said resisting vulnerability is a common reaction from men. But the Gophers athletics department preaches how strong people use whatever resources they can to be at their best.
Smith’s experience helped pull him from his low point and might have played a part in making him an even better player than he was before the injury. He has climbed to third on the school’s all-time rushing list, with 3,745 yards, and ranks ninth nationally this season with 112.29 rushing yards per game.
“He is running really hard, and he is seeing things really well. He’s patient when he needs to be patient. He’s sudden and triggering when he needs to trigger,” Fleck said. “So he’s better than he used to be. It’s not the old Rodney. It’s a new Rodney, which is very different than the old Rodney in a really good way.”
http://www.startribune.com/how-rodn...te-to-reach-new-gophers-high-point/563871162/
Go Gophers!!