2022年11月27日 VOA慢速英语：大学研究近期危机后运动员的心理健康

Late last summer, two football players at Indiana State University were killed in a car crash.
去年夏末，印第安纳州立大学的两名足球运动员在车祸中丧生。
 
Just over one week ago, three football players at the University of
就在一个多星期前，三
 
were killed when they were shot by a former teammate.
大学的足球运动员被前队友开枪打死。
 
In both cases, university leaders needed to make a plan to support the teammates and friends of the students who died.
在这两种情况下，大学领导都需要制定计划来支持死去学生的队友和朋友。
 
Sherard Clinksdale is the director of athletics, or sports at Indiana State. He had to find ways to help the students work through their sadness. He also had the difficult job of telling the football coach and the parents of the students that their children had died.
Sherard Clinksdale 是印第安纳州立大学的体育主任。他必须找到帮助学生度过悲伤的方法。他还艰难地告诉足球教练和学生的父母他们的孩子已经死了。
 
"There is no playbook for something like this," Clinksdale said.
“没有像这样的剧本，”克林克斯代尔说。
 
At the University of Virginia, Carla Williams has the top athletic job. When the news came out that the students were killed on November 14, the university canceled classes and other school activities for two days. The school did not play its next football game, either.
在弗吉尼亚大学，卡拉·威廉姆斯 (Carla Williams) 拥有顶尖的运动职位。当学生于 11 月 14 日遇难的消息传出后，该大学取消了两天的课程和其他学校活动。学校也没有参加下一场足球比赛。
 
Mental health professionals and dogs trained to offer comfort were made available to students. Williams said it was important to make counselors available for all students, not only the ones who were part of the sports team.
为学生提供了心理健康专家和训练有素的狗来提供安慰。威廉姆斯说，重要的是要为所有学生提供辅导员，而不仅仅是运动队成员。
 
In recent years, sports leaders at universities say they have paid more attention to the mental health of their students. A study done in 2019 showed that college presidents were also paying more attention to student mental health.
近年来，大学的体育领导人表示，他们更加关注学生的心理健康。 2019 年进行的一项研究表明，大学校长也更加关注学生的心理健康。
 
But in 2021, a survey of college athletes found that only 53 percent of those questioned thought their coaches took mental health seriously.
但在 2021 年，一项针对大学运动员的调查发现，只有 53% 的受访者认为他们的教练重视心理健康
 
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA, oversees college sports in the U.S. It does not have the power to make colleges change their mental health policies. But it does offer tools the schools can use to help students.
全国大学体育协会 (National Collegiate Athletic Association) 或 NCAA 负责监督美国的大学体育运动。它无权让大学改变其心理健康政策。但它确实提供了学校可以用来帮助学生的工具。
 
Sunday Henry is a doctor who works with students at Washington State University. She helped the football team there deal with the deaths of players in 2018 and 2019. Henry said the first part of the plan is to bring together all of the team members to tell them what happened and the ways they can get help.
Sunday Henry 是一名在华盛顿州立大学与学生一起工作的医生。她帮助那里的足球队处理了 2018 年和 2019 年球员的死亡事件。亨利说，计划的第一部分是召集所有球队成员，告诉他们发生了什么事以及他们可以获得帮助的方式。
 
She said she thinks college football coaches are getting better at urging their athletes to get mental health help. In the past, some players and coaches believed getting help was a sign of weakness.
她说她认为大学橄榄球教练在敦促他们的运动员获得心理健康帮助方面做得越来越好。过去，一些球员和教练认为获得帮助是软弱的表现。
 
Henry also said the athletic trainers are usually the best at noticing athletes who are having problems. The trainers spend a lot of time with the students who are recovering from injuries.
亨利还说，运动教练通常最善于发现有问题的运动员。教练们花了很多时间陪伴正在从伤病中恢复的学生。
 
Tony Elliott is the University of Virginia football coach. He said he wanted to support his players. He added, "Nothing can prepare you for this situation."
Tony Elliott 是弗吉尼亚大学的足球教练。他说他想支持他的球员。他补充说，“没有什么可以让你为这种情况做好准备。”
 
Bryan Blair is the athletic director at the University of Toledo in Ohio. He worked in sports at Washington State University when the players there died. Blair said many of the adults in the sports department took a class called Mental Health First Aid.
布莱恩·布莱尔 (Bryan Blair) 是俄亥俄州托莱多大学的体育主任。当那里的球员去世时，他在华盛顿州立大学从事体育工作。布莱尔说，体育部的许多成年人都参加了名为“心理健康急救”的课程。
 
He said the adults who work in college sports who often have contact with students should "be a resource to the student athletes."
他说，从事大学体育工作并经常与学生接触的成年人应该“成为学生的资源”运动员。”
 
Curt Mallory is the football coach at Indiana State. He said he makes time each Monday to meet with his student athletes, even if it seems like they are doing okay.
Curt Mallory 是印第安纳州立大学的橄榄球教练。他说他每个星期一都会抽出时间与他的学生运动员会面，即使他们看起来还不错。
 
At California's San Jose State University, coaches had to react to the death of a player who was hit by a bus in October. The next football game was postponed. The football coaches worked to help the student's family and plan a memorial.
在加利福尼亚州的圣何塞州立大学，教练们不得不对一名球员的死亡做出反应十月份被一辆公共汽车撞了。下一场足球比赛被推迟了。足球教练们努力帮助学生的家人，并策划了一场纪念活动。
 
The following week, the school played its game, and won. The player who died, Camdan McWright, was honored during a special ceremony. His family was there to see the memorial.
接下来的一周，学校进行了比赛，并获胜。死去的球员卡姆丹麦克赖特在一个特别的仪式上受到表彰。他的家人在那里观看了纪念活动。
 
Jeff Konya is the school's athletic director. He watched over the sports teams that week. He has worked in college sports for 36 years. In that time, he said, college sports leaders have gotten better at prioritizing mental health.
杰夫·科尼亚 (Jeff Konya) 是学校的体育主管。那个星期他监督了运动队。他在大学体育界工作了 36 年。他说，在那段时间里，大学体育领导者在优先考虑心理健康方面做得更好。
 
"We are in a better position now," he said. He noted, however, that things still can go wrong. "It is not foolproof," Konya said.
“我们现在处于更好的位置，”他说。然而，他指出，事情仍然可能出错。 “这并非万无一失，”科尼亚说。