Our Stories

Reflections about life on the sidelines written by totalteammates like you…
Injury

The Loss of One Allows for the Love of Another

Every time I enter my garage, I pass by my soccer cleats. The soccer cleats I ran thousands of miles in. The soccer cleats I tied before each practice and game. The soccer cleats I scored and assisted goals with. The soccer cleats I celebrated several regional championships in. And

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COVID

New Chapters

I never imagined that my collegiate golf career would end the way it did… Since golf is not a contact sport, I knew the chances of me experiencing a career-ending injury was low. I’ve never even been sidelined due to an injury before. I’ve always envisioned myself playing four years

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COVID

Working It Out

For my whole life, my sole motivation for working out was sports. It was always something I did with a specific purpose in mind. I was running to pass my fitness tests or I was lifting to get faster and more explosive. While I had always heard people talk about

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Retired

A Whole New Path

Broken femur, fractured tibial plateau and fibular head, stress fractures, tendonitis, among many others were the injuries that seemed to define my skiing career. Just when I thought I had made it through my first entire season with no significant injury, the worst one hit. Number two in the Reynolds

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COVID

Mentality Trumps Adversity

As a kid growing up, I had always envisioned myself playing college football. I played on two teams for about 5 years before making the transition to high school ball. In the spring, you would find me playing both baseball and lacrosse. I didn’t love lacrosse that much, so I

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Story

There Is A Winner In You

When you’ve lived the majority of your life viewing yourself as only an athlete, it can be pretty difficult to switch gears and imagine yourself doing something else. Such was the case with me two years ago. I had been waiting about a year and a half for my opportunity

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Retired

Grief: When Love Has Nowhere To Go

The first time I acknowledged that I was mourning my own life while simultaneously living it, I felt weak. After decades of mental resiliency I was ashamed to tell anyone that I was lost; how do you ask someone to help you find your identity? Who could possibly begin to

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Retired

The Jersey

Dear Rugby Family, It hurts to think about what could’ve been. There’s a certain heavy weight of grief that I felt, and sometimes still do, when we were all told the term was cancelled. A sense of identity was lost. The first thought that passed through my mind was “well

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