COVID's impact on college athletes' mental health and performance

Gregory Shamus/Getty ImagesBy DANA ALKHOURI, ABC News(NEW YORK) — Student athletes are used to having routines and game schedules. But that regimen was taken away as of March 2020, as lockdowns and restrictions were put in place throughout the country to combat COVID-19.

Some college athletes and experts shared with ABC News the toll they said the pandemic has taken on student athletes’ mental well-being as well as their progress in their sport.

“The pandemic was awful for me in the sense that I felt like I lost everything in an instant,” Baylee Tkaczuk, a gymnast who attended the University of