Shelly Mullenix, Senior Associate AD for Health and Wellness, on LSU's Fight Against COVID-19
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LSU Sports
4.9 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is a different one, because we are all currently living in a different world that's changing every day. COVID-19 has altered everything for us all, and LSU Athletics is no different.
Shelly Mullenix (6:10) is LSU's Senior Associate Athletic Director for Health and Wellness, and she's helping make crucial decisions for -- and providing information every day to -- LSU's student-athletes and staff, who, like the rest of the world, are in a state of limbo as the world stops to fight this virus.
Shelly isn't just an expert on so many subjects related to this virus -- health and wellness, mental health, and administrative decision-making. She's also a compassionate, thoughtful leader, and she is working tirelessly to make sure LSU's student-athletes stay healthy, mentally and physically, at a time when that mission is fraught with challenges.
Today's conversation isn't just applicable to student-athletes, though. We can all learn from Shelly's expertise, involvement, and information.
Resources:
CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
World Health Organization: https://www.who.int/
Louisiana Department of Health: http://ldh.la.gov/
National Institute of Mental Health: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/index.shtml
LSU Coronavirus Updates: https://lsu.edu/coronavirus/
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| 0:00.0 | LSU fans know better than anybody. |
| 0:02.8 | There's no place like home, whether it's Tiger Stadium or Tiger Park, the PMAQ or Alec Box. |
| 0:09.2 | When we're at home, we win. |
| 0:11.4 | The spread of COVID-19 will keep us from going to games for now, but we still have to work together to defeat this virus. |
| 0:18.4 | Do your part by staying home. |
| 0:20.4 | Whether you're sick or healthy, staying home is critical in the fight against the coronavirus. |
| 0:25.8 | Remember, staying home saves lives. |
| 0:44.5 | Yeah, fighting tigers, fight all the way. |
| 0:47.2 | Hey, fighting. I'm a digital media reporter for LSU Athletics here. |
| 0:50.1 | Today's podcast, of course, is a little bit different. |
| 0:52.3 | The world has changed since last we talked. And it's going to change a little bit of what I'm doing going forward, hopefully not too much, because one, I want to make sure that we're using this platform to keep you informed, but also entertain, engage, connected with LSU Athletics. |
| 1:10.4 | So I'm going to spend the next few weeks trying to strike that balance. |
| 1:13.5 | Hopefully I'll do that okay. |
| 1:15.7 | If I don't, please bear with me as I try to figure it out. |
| 1:18.2 | Because as you can imagine, as you can relate to, the changes worldwide as we've gone |
| 1:26.9 | into this battle with the coronavirus and we're kind of all in this |
| 1:30.8 | together. It's changed everything. And I want to make sure that I'm using my platform in the right |
| 1:35.3 | ways. And it's going to take me maybe a little bit of a little bit of trial and error to figure that |
| 1:40.3 | out exactly. But I figured this first episode back, the best thing to do would be to lean on |
| 1:46.1 | the expertise that we have in-house here at LSU to keep you informed and engaged knowing |
| 1:52.5 | what LSU is doing to protect its student athletes and its staff. And I think also in this |
| 1:57.7 | conversation with Shelley Mullinix, who's LSU's associate athletic director for health and wellness, I think you'll learn some things that you can apply to your life and maybe some tips that you can kind of stick to and some principles that you can try to stick to over the next few weeks is as we continue this battle. |
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