Helping student-athletes tackle change
Including life after sport
Our Mission is to help student-athletes prepare for sport changes, including retirement from sport
We do this by providing actionable tools to improve your coping skills, foster resilience, and center your values throughout all of your changes in your sport career, including the toughest challenge of them all: Adjusting to retirement from sport.
This effort is associated with North Dakota’s State Suicide Prevention Program, funded by the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Behavioral Health Division (BHD).
“This isn’t like any other good-bye you’ll ever say. People who never played can’t understand it. This isn’t something you just turn off. It’s not like closing a door.”
Tommy McDonald, NFL Hall of Fame Class of 1998
Ready, Set, Next Modules
RSN is offered live (in-person or via Zoom) and on-demand. Our live workshop is a total of 6 hours and can be offered as 1, 2, or 3 sessions.
2. Resilience Skills
Research-backed skills you can use when coping with sport-related changes
1. Making Sense
Learn about risk & protective factors as you deal with changes in sport
4. Sport Reflections
Reflect on lessons learned in your sport career & apply these to other areas of your life
3. Values & Support
Use your values and create social connections to help you adapt & adjust to change
6. Your Action Plan
Develop an individualized action plan that you can use throughout your sport career
5. Physical Health
Understand how to center quality sleep and nutrition as you navigate sport changes
Join Ready, Set, Next
This course includes 6 modules with approximately 6 total hours of programming. You are provided a workbook, where you can reflect on what you learn and build your individualized Action Plan that you can use throughout your sport career.
If you are in North Dakota OR attended a North Dakota college/university, you have free access to the self-directed program through June, 30, 2027! This effort is associated with North Dakota’s State Suicide Prevention Program, funded by the North Dakota Health Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Behavioral Health Division (BHD).
Paid registrants have lifetime access to the self-directed program!
Supporting student-athletes
Sports are full of changes: Changing roles, dealing with injury, personnel changes, and many more.
Did you know that approximately 20% of athletes experience retirement from sport as a crisis? Because of this, helping student-athletes plan for sport-related changes (including retirement) early and often is necessary!
Planning for sport-related changes helps student-athletes:
Invest more in their sport while they are competing;
Find more sport-related enjoyment; and
Reduce anxiety because they have a plan to deal with the unexpected.
This is why we created Ready, Set Next!
We want to support coaches, staff, and medical professionals while they are supporting student-athletes, so we also created courses for you to support student-athletes in their journey.
