@article{796907,
      recid = {796907},
      author = {Fagan, Kate},
      title = {What made Maddy run : the secret struggles and tragic  death of an all-American teen /},
      pages = {xii, 305 pages :},
      abstract = {"From noted ESPN commentator and journalist Kate Fagan,  the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete  Madison Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the  University of Pennsylvania campus and whose life reveals  with haunting detail and uncommon understanding the  struggle of young people suffering from mental illness  today. If you scrolled through the Instagram feed of  19-year-old Maddy Holleran, you would see a perfect life: a  freshman at an Ivy League school, recruited for the track  team, who was also beautiful, popular, and fiercely  intelligent. This was a girl who succeeded at everything  she tried, and who was only getting started. But when Maddy  began her long-awaited college career, her parents noticed  something was different. Previously indefatigable, Maddy  became withdrawn, and her thoughts centered on how she  could change her life. In spite of thousands of hours of  practice and study, she contemplated transferring from the  school that had once been her dream. When Maddy's dad, Jim,  dropped her off for the first day of spring semester, she  held him a second longer than usual. That would be the last  time Jim would see his daughter. What Made Maddy Run began  as a piece that Kate Fagan, a columnist for espnW, wrote  about Maddy and her experience. What started as a profile  of a successful young athlete whose life ended in suicide  became so much larger when Fagan started to hear from other  college athletes also grappling with mental illness. This  is the story of Maddy Holleran and her struggle with  depression, but it also reveals the mounting pressures  young people, and college athletes in particular, face to  be perfect, especially in an age of relentless connectivity  and social-media saturation."--Jacket},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/796907},
}