Crawford Family WHOLE Student-Athlete Fund

Wellness Health Optimal Life Experience 

WHOLE Student-Athlete Equation: 

Physical Health + Psychological Health + Academic Health + Career Health = Life Ready 

Why Does WHOLEness Matter? 

Wellness, Health and Optimal Life Experience are key to supporting CU Student-Athletes, and are accomplished through CU's comprehensive approach to Physical, Psychological, Academic and Career Health; resulting in the WHOLE Student-Athlete@CU being Life Ready. 

“Too often in College Athletics do the pressures surrounding our industry and higher education as a whole create a state of affairs in which administrators are overwhelmed with addressing a seemingly endless stream of issues, forcing us to spend inordinate amounts of time focused on finding temporary fixes to nuanced problems that require much more intricate solutions. And while some may contend that the distraction of our attention is perhaps warranted given the current circumstances, the on-going crisis has really only exposed our inclinations towards taking a patchwork approach when trying to solve challenges fundamental to why our industry exists in the first place – to maximize the academic and athletic opportunities available to each one of our student athletes.” - Rick George 

“The WHOLE Student-Athlete program is really unique. With this sort of approach, CU-Boulder is leading the country in terms of the way the Athletic Department is in collaboration and partnership with academic units. That just doesn’t happen routinely in a lot of places” - Dr. Theresa Hernandez, Director Crawford WHOLE Student-Athlete Program.