This may just be the most important thing you read today... #Repost victoriagarrick ・・・ When I became a college athlete, the new muscles and weight on my body were not welcomed... and my freshman year I did everything to try and fix it: I dieted, I counted calories, I cried, I binge ate, I avoided lifting heavy, and I even went and ran on the tread mill after our three hour practice. Nobody knew how unhappy I was or what was going on. Then during my sophomore year, I was asked by a professor to write an article for her magazine about Title IX. I said yes, but as I sat down at my computer that night to write about female athletes in sports, I couldn’t silence a different story that was dying to be told. So on February 2nd, 2017, and for the very first time, I came forward about my body-image issues. Today, the student-athlete organization I founded thehiddenopponent, has republished the article and it has me feeling very nostalgic. This paragraph in particular still gets me. . “Excite...