{"id":36964,"date":"2021-05-21T08:25:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T12:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=36964"},"modified":"2021-05-24T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T12:48:09","slug":"new-athletics-counselor-is-a-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/new-athletics-counselor-is-a-game-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"New athletics counselor is a &#8216;game changer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"796\" data-attachment-id=\"36981\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/new-athletics-counselor-is-a-game-changer\/christopher-cannizzaro-21-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Christopher-Cannizzaro-21-445-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,796\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Angela Foster\/University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Christopher Cannizzaro sits Wednesday, April 14, 2021 in McKenzie Arena.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1618387349&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.1&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Christopher Cannizzaro-21&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Christopher Cannizzaro-21\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Christopher Cannizzaro sits Wednesday, April 14, 2021 in McKenzie Arena.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Christopher-Cannizzaro-21-445-2-1024x679.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-36981\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Christopher-Cannizzaro-21-445-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Christopher-Cannizzaro-21-445-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Christopher-Cannizzaro-21-445-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Christopher-Cannizzaro-21-445-2-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Christopher-Cannizzaro-21-445-2-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Christopher-Cannizzaro-21-445-2-580x385.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Christopher-Cannizzaro-21-445-2-610x405.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Christopher-Cannizzaro-21-445-2-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2021\/05\/Christopher-Cannizzaro-21-445-2-600x398.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">As the new kid on block, Athletics Counselor Christopher Cannizzaro had to embed himself within the athletics family during the middle of the school year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As one of his athletics department co-workers aptly put it, Chris Cannizzaro has had to &#8220;drink from the fire hydrant&#8221; over his first five-plus months on the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, funding was allocated to hire a counselor for student-athletes. The idea was that the UTC Counseling Center would provide clinical and administrative oversight, with the position fully embedded within the Department of Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>After a national search, Cannizzaro\u2014who has master\u2019s degrees in clinical mental health and clinical psychology\u2014started at UTC on Jan. 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he got here, he had to drink from the fire hydrant; there was no drinking from the water hose,\u201d said Nate Barger, UTC assistant athletics director for sports medicine. \u201cHe had to interject himself into our daily lives because we were already full steam ahead at that point. He was figuring out how he fits into the athletics family, but the coaches and the staff saw the importance of having him here and they really wrapped their arms around him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris\u2019 ability to relate to a head coach, an athletic trainer, a student-athlete, a manager, an administrator \u2026 he is able to interact with everyone. He has a gift for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cannizzaro, a native of Long Island, New York, relished the idea of working with Mocs student-athletes to embrace non-physical skills like communication, leadership, emotional regulation and time management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people think of athletics, they automatically assume, \u2018Oh, they get everything they need,\u2019 but that\u2019s not true. We are still humans, and sometimes the student part of student-athlete gets lost,\u201d Cannizzaro said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask a lot of our student-athletes. They have school, training, practice, post-practice meetings, pre-practice meetings. Ballpark, it can be 40 to 50 hours a week that they are giving to their sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re so busy and they have these added stressors and pressures. Sometimes, they need to be reminded to take a second, breathe and remember what it is about their sport that they fell in love with in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as we can tell, this is the first time a school in the state of Tennessee has done this model of embedding the counselor in athletics,\u201d said Keilan Rickard, director of the UTC Counseling Center. \u201cThere is research that shows that athletes are an underserved population when it comes to their mental health. Academics already is a full-time job, so anything you add to your course load is going to be potential for stress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having a mental health professional in athletics is unique for programs not in the SEC, Pac-12, ACC, Big 10 or Big 12, five conferences known as the Power Five.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they told me, \u2018We want to give you somebody specifically for athletics,\u2019 that was a game-changer,\u201d Barger said. \u201cHaving Chris here as a sounding board for stuff that student-athletes are going through and the emotions they are feeling\u2014and helping them work through those emotions\u2014is such a huge resource for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one thing to start a new job, but Cannizzaro joined the University in the middle of a school year and during COVID-19, which brought its own share of stressors. Just weeks after his arrival, UTC intercollegiate athletics entered a period in which every sport was competing at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Cannizzaro hit the ground running after arriving on campus. His day-to-day\u2014if not hour-to-hour\u2014schedule included meeting athletics staff, coaches and students; developing promotional materials; conducting needs assessments with various sports teams; attending practices; meeting individually with student-athletes to address mental health concerns as well as performance concerns.<\/p>\n<p>He led workshops and sessions called \u201cLet\u2019s Talk\u201d with groups of student-athletes. A simple Q&amp;A, it introduced him and broke the ice. He also contributed to an interdepartmental UTC Eating Disorder Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he found himself adapting to the local culture while dealing with the challenges of telehealth service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing in here, being the new kid on the block, it was about making friends and letting athletic trainers, coaches, staff and students know who I am as a person,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted them to know, \u2018Chris is a good listener. He\u2019s empathetic. Our student-athletes will be in good hands when they work with him.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the start of the summer months, Cannizzaro finally has a chance to prepare for a typical academic\/athletics calendar and take a deep breath of his own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone around here has been nice. Everyone is polite and welcoming. I\u2019m excited about finally getting the chance to explore the area and learn my way around campus,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m from Long Island, and if our daily trip ran 10 minutes, we\u2019re cranky. 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