Why We Built AthletesTogether

AthletesTogether was built by two athletes who needed it, but didn't have it. John played two sports at the Division I level — football at USC and lacrosse at Richmond — and later competed at the Olympic Trials in bobsled. Lucas played Division I baseball at James Madison until Tommy John surgery ended his career.

Between us, we've been hurt at just about every stage of an athletic career. The physical side was handled well. There was always a trainer, a protocol, a rehab timeline, someone who knew exactly what to do with the injury itself.

What nobody had a plan for was the rest of it. The part where you're still on the roster but not in the mix. The part where the thing you've fought for your entire life gets taken away with no notice, and you find out how much of who you are was tied up in it. The part where you come back physically ready and mentally somewhere else entirely.

We weren't unusual in that. We looked around the locker room and saw teammates carrying the same weight and saying nothing about it, because the only options on offer were the ones you use when things have already gone badly wrong. There was nothing for the ordinary Tuesday. Nothing that treated your head the way the weight room treats your body — a little every day, tracked, improving.

So we built it. AthletesTogether is a daily practice, not a crisis line. Short, gamified sessions an athlete actually wants to open, built alongside 40+ sports psychologists, that add up over time into a measurable baseline you can watch move. It's the thing we wanted and didn't have.

We built it for the athlete we were, and for every teammate who never said a word.