“I got that call in June from my coach that she no longer wanted me to run for her. So in that moment I was on a full ride track and field scholarship in the States. Now that my scholarship was gone, I no longer was able to afford to go to school in the States. So I had to drop out of UNR and that’s why I came back to Calgary. After, Coach Laurier got in touch with me, he said I wouldn’t be able to come because the roster was full for the next year. I had to wait an entire year. And not being able to go to school for a whole year really sucked. He told me if I had to run here I had to sit a season out. So then that was hard because I wasn’t able to compete. My long term boyfriend of 6 years told me he no longer wanted it to work so that hit me. And then, on top of that I was just feeling so down on myself. I really didn’t know what I was going to do.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I can honestly say, for probably a couple of weeks, I was like I’m going to sit here and sulk. I’m going to do nothing. I’m going to feel like shit. And after awhile I’m going to allow myself to sulk for only so long and it’s time that I get back up. I got on a nutrition plan that really worked for me. I started with a trainer for weights and I started to see the results almost immediately on the track. So then my track workout started to go better. I cut people out of my life that were negative. I think that was probably the biggest thing. And I only kept a few people in my inner circle to bring that positivity out. I was already really close with my mom but I became really close with my brother and my dad as well. So my connection with my family sky rocketed. I started just to focus on aspects of my life that wasn’t going great before so that they could become great and so overall everything in my life would improve. So my biggest advice would be, yes allow yourself that time to be sad, to hurt, but after awhile you can only take so much before you just start damaging yourself. You have to learn, you have to pick yourself back up.” – Tegan Wilson, Canadian Sprinter with @ubctbirds (4/4)
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