Stanford Katie Meyer Rest in Peace!!

Holy cow - looks like she committed suicide?? I know very few women's college soccer players but absolutely remember her from her penalty saves in the nat'l title game and how animated she was after each one. Awful news.

Sounds like it was suicide. Just terrible!!
Very difficult video to watch.


Here is an exert from today.com - www.today.com/news/sports/katie-meyer-death-parents-interview-rcna18694



""I don’t even think it’s hit us yet," she continued. "We’re still in shock. But we had no red flags."

In their search for answers over Katie's death, the couple said they believe she received an email regarding a potential disciplinary action from the university.

"Katie, being Katie, was defending a teammate on campus over an incident and the repercussions of her defending that teammate (were possibly resulting in disciplinary action)," Steven Meyer said on TODAY.

"We have not seen that email yet," Gina said. "She had been getting letters for a couple months. This letter was kind of the final letter that there was going to be a trial or some kind of something. This is the only thing that we can come up with that triggered something.""

This is the super scary part. Her parents spoke to her a few hours before she commits suicide and they saw no red flags. Unknown yet if anyone else that was close to her did like her teammates, coaches, athletic trainers, professors, friends or sports psychologist (I imagine they have one since in our recruiting journey some much smaller places have mentioned one).

I suspect she just hid her pain and distress really well. In the case of Madison Holleran at least there were signs. She was seeing someone and had started meds. But it does go to show you that many people that are high achieving and seem to have it all really are struggling inside. Honestly I think part of this is that people just are not that nice anymore. Plus there is so much pressure on these kids. Even regular high school kids wanting to go to their state's flagship university are often having to push themselves to unbelievable limits to achieve these goals!

100%

Not unlike seniors in HS being able to sign themself out once they turn 18. If she had problems.. she felt they didn’t need to be shared with her parents. According to them anyway.

It’s heartbreaking regardless.

Several sources say it was definitely suicide. Parents were quoted. This is another tragedy.

This is starting to look really bad for college athletics. We know these kids are under a lot of pressure and so many don't look for help or look too late like Madison Holleran. There was a recent post by a Ohio State football player saying he was quitting football to focus on mental health and this was supported and encouraged by their head coach (who I believe lost his dad to suicide).

This is not just a college athlete issue but also a college issue as well with lots of kids at many universities (I believe 3 at UNC this past fall) taking this unfortunate path. Very scary for parents today. How do we know how to help them? What degree of assistance is best? Do you try to stop them from doing too much? Try to stop them from doing too little? What is the right amount of parental advice or frankly interference at times (both potentially helpful or harmful).