Chris Casola on Champion Performance In Mental Health
ABOUT THE EPISODE
In this episode of Athletes OnBalance, Walt Norley sits down with Chris Casola, Senior Associate Athletic Director for Champion Performance at Liberty University, to talk about the future of student-athlete care. Together, they dig into why mental health needs to be tracked and treated with the same precision as physical recovery, and how real-time data is changing the way teams think about performance. Chris shares Liberty’s approach to blending sports science, behavioral health, and compliance into one cohesive system, and why it's not just helping athletes stay healthy, but helping departments make smarter decisions at every level.