Titans Team Up With Headspace
UW-Oshkosh Athletics has partnered with Headspace, the world's leading meditation and mindfulness app, to provide additional mental and physical health care to its 500-plus student-athletes, coaches and support staff.
UW-Oshkosh began its partnership with Headspace in early September. The collaboration allows UW-Oshkosh to offer full accounts to everyone associated with the school's 19-sport athletics program. The partnership also demonstrates UW-Oshkosh's commitment to creating a culture of health and wellness among its student-athletes and staff members.
The Headspace app, which has over 50 million users in more than 190 countries, helps lower feelings of stress, anxiety, pain, burnout, depression and irritability, while also raising feelings of focus, resilience, happiness and better decision making.
"We want to support our student-athletes in each and every aspect of their college life," said Darryl Sims, UW-Oshkosh Assistant Chancellor, Athletics. "Our partnership with Headspace is just another innovative way that we are enhancing the well-being of our students and staff."
With over 1,200 hours of content spread over 60 topics, Headspace has something to offer everyone. Besides helping to improve mental health, Headspace also enables the individual to be more focused, confident, composed, calm and motivated.
"The athletics department offering of a full-subscription service of Headspace for all of its student-athletes is extremely important to me," said Vicci Stimac, UW-Oshkosh Associate Athletics Director. "It shows that our department is not just saying student-athlete well-being is a top priority. We are putting it at the forefront and we want to make sure all student-athletes know that it is okay to not be okay, and this is another step in the right direction for improving the student-athlete experience head-on."
Stimac is working with every coach to enroll their student-athletes over the next week. Each week she will provide tips on how to navigate the app as well as show trends of what areas of the app are getting the most use.