Madison Reger

Dont lose your happiness on the pursuit for more ⚾️⛳️ Nothing about life is easy. Nothing. -NF12.

[Madison Reger @ThatPrestoKid]

YESSSSSS CAROLINAAAAAAAAA!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🎉🍾🎉🤩

[Pittsburgh Riveters SC @RivetersSC]

Your White Aht Night XI! 💪

#PITvBUF #RivetersRise

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

🚨INSANE PHOTO🚨

Photo above the Pittsburgh #Steelers stadium last night of the LIGHTNING STRIKING.

ONE OF THE COOLEST PHOTOS YOU WILL EVER SEE.

(Via @DaveDiCello / @TheStandard412)

[GeekyAthleticTrainer @geekyathltrainr]

Coming back from summer break and the coaches have forgotten all our policies and procedures:

[Madison Reger @ThatPrestoKid]

@YaleMSoccer @KylieStannard Happy birthday boss!

[Madison Reger @ThatPrestoKid]

Socks are my nemesis 🤬

[Madison Reger @ThatPrestoKid]

Does any one have any tips or tricks with iron supplements? They made me feel sicker when I was already not feeling great a few months back but my doc wants me to try again with a slow release kind this time

[Madison Reger @ThatPrestoKid]

Finally wearing an outfit that feels put together and not bummish for the first time in four months.. ie not sweatpants or joggers, JEAN SHORTS I’m a real human 😂😂😂😂

[ely kreimendahl @ElyKreimendahl]

my toxic trait is that if they opened Jurassic park I would still totally go

[Seth Rorabaugh @SethRorabaugh]

Duquesne-Illinois.

Loser has to pronounce its S.

[Madison Reger @ThatPrestoKid]

@GenevaCollege @GenevaAthletics 😂🙃🥹

[Ridge View Sports Medicine @RVSportsMed]

Definitely feeling the love from @RidgeViewSports during this National Athletic Training Month!!

[Zach, AT⚕️ @TurnBomb15]

Literally all you need to do is tell your athletic trainers “Happy National Athletic Training Month” and it will make their entire day/week or month. It’s that simple!!

[Victoria Morris @morris_atc]

Athletic Trainers cover every practice, all home games, some away games, and some playoff games. We change our plans because you forgot to tell us. Yet we are lucky to get a pat on the back and thank you at the end of the season.

This month take some time to celebrate ATs!

[Braden Appelhans @AppelhansBraden]

Those of you who follow New Mexico basketball may have noticed I haven’t been playing or anyone who knows me may have noticed I have been so distant from everyone and there is a good reason for that. 

I have struggled with depression off and on since high school. I was diagnosed with ADHD and anxiety in 4th grade. I was put on medication to help with school and only took it during school (summers and weekends off) I was told my medication had a slight antidepressant in it. Since my depression wasn’t constant and would come and go my parents just helped me through it, thinking my medication would help.

Last spring, after taking a medical redshirt, trying to recover from surgery, and learning how to balance school with a tough travel schedule my depression showed up in a big, bad, scary way!  I went home after school got out, got into my doctor, and started on an antidepressant.  

I returned to UNM for summer and fall and killed it in practice.  Was earning playing time and showing signs of having a great season.  However, in late September I started spiraling into a dark place again. My coaches noticed a dramatic change.  I would call me several times a day to my mom in just a complete meltdown. I couldn’t make it through a practice without breaking down in tears.  I couldn’t function, stopped doing homework, lost interest in basketball, and was going down a dark path to the point where I was questioning if I should even be here.  My coaches called my mom and said she needed to come and be with me.  She was on a plane the next day and spent 4 days in Albuquerque.  I went to see the team doctor and learned my ADHD medication and depression medication were canceling each other out.  For about 6 months I wasn’t getting any medication.  I got on a new medication that worked with my ADHD meds and got in with the sports therapist.  Slowly but surely I started to feel like myself again.  Then the start of the semester came and anxiety attacks kicked in. They would hit me out of the blue.  They were almost crippling and exhausting.  So back to the doctor I went and decided it was time to stop the ADHD meds - too much stimulation.  Now I am about 2 months ADHD meds free.  Grades are still good and I feel like myself again. I still take an antidepressant every day but I am in such a better place!

Through all of this, I missed practices and games.  My coaches, teammates and everyone involved in Lobo basketball put me in a protective cocoon and took great care of me and I couldn’t be more thankful for them. My coaches decided to limit me to make sure I was mentally healthy.  I've handled it the best way possible and I understand their decision because I know what a dark scary place I was in.

You change from here.

I am so grateful that I reached out for help. I knew I could call my parents, coaches, and teammates at any time.  Most people (young kids and young adults especially) don’t have that. Most don’t dare to reach out and ask for help. I hope someone reading this will see that it can happen to anyone, even kids who are living out their dreams.  Everyone needs help at some point. 

So there it is. That is the big story and mystery as to why I haven’t been on the floor and why I have been so distant from everyone. I have accepted that I have an invisible injury that I am fixing and is well on the mend!   I will be back in a Lobo jersey next year! 

-BA1

[Geneva Athletics @GenevaAthletics]

Dancing to Virginia!

[Geneva Athletics @GenevaAthletics]

That moment when you knew @GT_MBB was adding a trophy to its collection tonight!

[Jeff Santarsiero @JeffSantarsiero]

This group has worked for this moment since the first day of practice. So happy for them, our staff and our fans. It takes a village and this group has earned their trip to NCAA TOURNAMENT 🌪��

[GeekyAthleticTrainer @geekyathltrainr]

No, but seriously, guys. Your hypocrisy can be a bit irksome.

[Madison Reger @ThatPrestoKid]

Picking up my kindle for the first time since before Christmas….. it’s definitely been a long month and a half