TCU's Hailey Van Lith gets candid about mental health struggles, shares how prayer helped

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TCU Horned Frogs women’s hoops prima Hailey Van Lith opened up astir her struggles with her intelligence wellness arsenic she dealt with societal media stardom astatine a young age.

Van Lith has lone been further successful the nationalist spotlight during her collegiate and Olympic hoops career. She starred astatine Louisville earlier she transferred to LSU and aboriginal to TCU, wherever she helped the squad to a Big 12 Championship this season.

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TCU's Hailey Van Lith, #10, and Madison Conner, #2, observe successful the 2nd fractional against Louisville successful the 2nd circular of the NCAA assemblage hoops tourney successful Fort Worth, Texas, connected Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

After lending a manus successful defeating the Cardinals, she spoke candidly astir her intelligence health.

"The mode that I got exposed to the media and societal media astatine specified a young age, I truly struggled with intelligence wellness things," she said, via Sports Illustrated. "When I was younger and successful college, I was suicidal, I was heavy medicated, and I felt trapped. 

"You would ne'er cognize due to the fact that I was having a ton of occurrence connected the court, but internally, and successful beingness successful general, I was acceptable to beryllium done. That's what I mean erstwhile I talk connected suffering and pain. It's similar I didn't adjacent privation to live.

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TCU's Donovyn Hunter, #4, Hailey Van Lith, #10, Madison Conner, #2, and Sedona Prince, #13, look to the seat successful the 2nd fractional against Fairleigh Dickinson successful the archetypal circular of the NCAA assemblage hoops tourney successful Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, connected March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

"So, to travel from that bash this is incredible. I’ve been praying each twelvemonth like, 'God, I cognize you've fixed maine this grounds to stock it with the satellite and shed your light,' and I deliberation this is the twelvemonth and this is the infinitesimal that helium wants radical to cognize my communicative and however He has taken maine virtually from the depths of wanting to dice to this infinitesimal of loving life. Even if hoops went distant today, I genuinely would privation to beryllium present and emotion these people."

Van Lith had 16 points and 10 rebounds successful the 85-70 win. TCU is successful the Sweet 16 for the archetypal clip successful programme history.

TCU's Hailey Van Lith, #10, jogs onto the tribunal during introductions earlier the archetypal fractional successful the 2nd circular of the NCAA assemblage hoops tourney against Louisville successful Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday, connected March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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She went to the Final Four and 2 Elite Eight games with Louisville from 2021-23. She reached the Elite Eight with LSU past season.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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