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Topic: Mind - October 09 2025
Passion and Purpose after Retirement

Ending our sport on someone else's terms—like with medical retirement—makes the transition more difficult. VIS Athlete Sonja Dommen and VIS Expert Mariah Bullock give us strategies to cope with this change.

By Abby Waddington

VIS Creator

& Mariah Bullock, PhD

VIS Expert

Topic: Mind

October 09 2025

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We like to think we can choose to step away from sports on our own time. But that isn’t always the case when injuries get in our way.  In the NCAA, an athlete who is deemed unable to safely continue competition by their athletic care team can be “medically retired.” This means that their injury disqualifies them from competing, but they can still receive  any athletic scholarship and school-sponsored medical insurance that they had before their injury.  While this decision is...
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