Body Image & Eating with Victoria Garrick
Victoria Garrick played volleyball at USC and is currently a
mental health + body image advocate…
We invited her to come speak at Harvard…
On February 4th, 2020 Women of Harvard Athletics welcomed Victoria Garrick, graduated USC volleyball player and current body image and mental health advocate to our campus. After a breakfast with the co presidents and co vice-presidents, a tour of Harvard’s academic and athletic facilities, the WHA Board got to enjoy a smaller Q&A session (with hot chocolate and donuts!!) with Victoria.
Fast forward to 6:30PM in Ticknor Lounge and roughly 20 WHA members are enjoying a free catered dinner with Victoria before the main speaker event. More and more female athletes (~60 total!!) piled into Boylston Hall as we welcomed our speaker. Victoria gave our WHA members an amazing presentation on her own battles against an eating disorder, body image, and mental health problems before having a more intimate discussion with members who felt inspired to share their thoughts too.
WATCH THE RECAP VIDEO BELOW…
Victoria’s presence encouraged many Harvard female athletes to bring topics like body image and eating to their teams and WHA is looking to continue this important conversation in more speaker events and discussions in the future.
Learn more about Victoria…
@Victoriagarrick
www.victoriagarrick.com
