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Message: [QUOTE="EricLA, post: 2713553, member: 26"] I can't believe more isn't made of this - feeling out of place as a black athlete at ND is a HUGE deal. Being told to do unhealthy things just to be able to play is a HUGE deal. "[I]...but I had basically the three worst things you could have going to Notre Dame: I was a black student-athlete, I had a learning disability, and I was never in class. I felt like a burden to the teachers. I lost my appetite, and I would do extra workouts just to feel the pain. We weighed in once a week, and because I wasn't eating, I was always underweight. [B]The trainer would say, "Go take a protein shake and chug it so you can make weight,[/B]" when that's basically the unhealthiest thing you can do. That anxiety that I had around having to make a certain weight and look a certain way[/I]"… So the athletic trainer for the women's team was telling her to do this? That's awful. Yeah, any kid considering ND ought to talk to Jewell before signing up. That's practically abuse. Telling a kid to do stuff to make weight just so they can play is good for the team but horrible for the student athlete. That's HORRIBLE, and a huge black mark for ND women's basketball. [/QUOTE]