Tom is joined by UM-Duluth Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Jeremy Golden to discuss the recent article he wrote on anxietyinathletes.org about his lifetime struggles with depression and grief. Jeremy opens up about the loss of his mother, and how he had to address both grief and depression in his life at the same time. Also discussed is the benefits of therapy, and how Tom and Jeremy plan on continuing to break the stigma of mental health for coaches worldwide.
Article: https://anxietyinathletes.org/2023/03/31/my-setback-my-comeback/
About Jeremy:
Jeremy Golden was named the Head Strength and Conditioning for Men’s and Women’s Hockey at the University of Minnesota-Duluth in July of 2022. Prior to this, he spent three years as the Director of Strength and Conditioning for Women’s Basketball at the University of Virginia. Over the past decade, Golden has worked with various NCAA Division I athletes before arriving in Duluth— he worked as Assistant Director of Athletic Performance at the Univ. of New Mexico and the Director of Sports Performance at Santa Clara University. He also spent six years as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Cornell, and one year working with the Friars’ women’s basketball team at Providence College.
Golden also serves as a board member with the NSCA’s Basketball Special Interest Group. When Golden was a junior in college at the Univ. of Tulsa, he played football while earning a B.A in Mass Communication (1999). He then went on to earn an M.S in physical education and sports administration from the University of New Mexico (2003).
