Helping athletes tackle change & challenges
Including life after sport
Our Mission is to help athletes prepare for changes in sport
We do this by providing actionable tools to improve your coping skills, foster resilience, and center your values throughout all of your changes in your sport career, including the toughest change of them all: Adjusting to the end of your sport career.
This effort is associated with North Dakota’s State Suicide Prevention Program, funded by the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Behavioral Health Division (BHD).
For athletes
Sports are full of changes:
Changing roles (becoming a captain, less playing time, etc.)
Moving to a new team (transferring, joining as a freshman)
Personnel changes (coaching and sports medicine staff, teammates)
Dealing with an injury (short- or long-term)
Knowing what to do when your sport career ends
And many more.
These changes are often challenging to deal with, especially when they are unexpected.
This is why we created Ready, Set Next
We want you to be ready to deal with these changes so you can be the person and athlete that you want to be!
We have several programs for a wide range of situations and athletes ages 18+. Click the button below to learn about each program.
“This isn’t like any other good-bye you’ll ever say. People who never played can’t understand it. This isn’t something you just turn off. It’s not like closing a door.”
Tommy McDonald, NFL Hall of Fame Class of 1998
For those supporting athletes
Research tells us that helping athletes plan for sport-related changes ahead of time (including the end of their sport career) is important!
Planning for sport-related changes helps athletes:
Invest more in their sport while they are competing;
Find more sport-related enjoyment; and
Reduce anxiety because they have a plan to deal with the unexpected.
Also, did you know that approximately 20% of athletes experience the end of their sport career as a crisis?
Why we created Ready, Set Next
We want to empower everyone in the sport ecosystem with tools to deal with changes in sport, so we created role-specific webinars for those supporting athletes.
