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" Find your passion, set a goal, go to work, evaluate, reassess, and repeat. "
Elana Meyers
Work
Find
Goal
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" Even though concussions affect women more often than men, there's not a lot of concussion research about women specifically. You can slip and fall and hit your head and have a concussion. And unless you know what to do, and unless you're able to take the right steps, you may not be able to recover. "
Elana Meyers
Women
Research
Men
" Being southern and doing bobsled was difficult from the standpoint that I had no idea how to handle the cold and how to dress in the cold, let alone warm up and compete in the cold - so it was a definite shock. I didn't even own a coat when I first started bobsledding! "
Elana Meyers
Doing
Alone
Dress
" Bobsleigh is best for athletes who are fast and strong, which were my strengths in softball. "
Elana Meyers
Best
Fast
Strengths
" The more eyeballs there are on the sport, it will get more diverse. "
Elana Meyers
Sport
Diverse
Get
" Traditionally, the treatment for a concussion has been to stare at a wall and wait for your brain to heal itself. Don't watch TV, don't read a book, don't look at your phone, and definitely don't train. It's a torturous protocol for an athlete. "
Elana Meyers
Look
Book
Phone
" Bobsled boils down to three things - your equipment, start, and drive. To win the Olympics requires all three. "
Elana Meyers
Things
Three
Win
" In bobsled, you work as a team - a driver and a brakeman. Both athletes push, but the brakeman's biggest responsibility is to push as fast as she can and get in and ride down in a good aerodynamic position. The driver helps to push but gets in first and then steers the sled down the track. We aren't just along for the ride, despite how it looks! "
Elana Meyers
Ride
Responsibility
Good
" I've got some genetic gifts. "
Elana Meyers
Got
Genetic
Gifts
" All sports have a zone, but ours is at 95 mph. You can feel the speed; you can feel the wind. It's the most euphoric thing I've ever done. "
Elana Meyers
Feel
Done
You
" Bobsledders are big athletes, and I'm a big athlete. "
Elana Meyers
Athlete
Athletes
Big
" I've encountered a lot of biases as a woman. "
Elana Meyers
Woman
Biases
Encountered
" My mom has never cared if I did sports or not. Obviously, she's proud of me, and she loves the fact that I'm an Olympian and she's got these trinkets to hang around with the medals and whatnot. But if I wanted to do whatever, if I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer or whatever, she was going to support me regardless. "
Elana Meyers
Support
Sports
Proud
" I was always encouraged to participate in whatever sports I wanted to be in. "
Elana Meyers
Wanted
Always
Sports
" I'll do whatever I need to do to bring more athletes to the sport. "
Elana Meyers
Whatever
More
Bring
" I train with track athletes, which is weird for bobsledders. I love training with track athletes because they help me work on my speed, and they give me something to cheer for during the Summer Olympics. "
Elana Meyers
Me
Love
Help
" I'm not sure I'll ever love softball as much as bobsled. It's like having children: you don't love one more than the other, you just love them differently, and that's how my love for softball is vs. my love of bobsled - two totally different sports with different personalities. "
Elana Meyers
Children
Love
More
" Bobsled is a universal sport, and most people don't know that. Anybody can slide down a hill. "
Elana Meyers
Hill
Slide
People
" I love my teammates. I love my coaches. "
Elana Meyers
Coaches
I Love
Love
" I feel like sport can transcend a lot of different things. "
Elana Meyers
Feel
Transcend
Like
" There's times when I'll be out in the middle of the track, standing in the curve, and I'll just laugh. 'What the heck am I doing right now? I'm sliding down the hill at crazy speeds and standing in freezing cold weather.' "
Elana Meyers
Weather
Laugh
Doing
" You get this feeling in bobsled, like a combination of excitement, anxiety, and pure nervousness, and you get that combination only very few times. "
Elana Meyers
You
Pure
Feeling
" The Midland community is huge into softball. They have a lot of competitive men's teams. We played at a beautiful stadium, and our games would be packed every weekend. I'm pretty sure people have my signature on softballs and they don't even know. Because we would just sign so many autographs all of the time. "
Elana Meyers
Beautiful
Time
People
" If one little girl who looks like me picks up a winter sport because she sees me, that's all anybody could ever ask for. "
Elana Meyers
Girl
She
Winter
" The first run in a four-man sled was one of the most nerve-wracking I've had in my life. "
Elana Meyers
Life
First
My Life
" I don't like cold weather. "
Elana Meyers
Cold Weather
Cold
Weather
" For me, it's always been about continually challenging myself and continually figuring out how to go down the hill faster. "
Elana Meyers
Always
Down
Hill
" It's hard to describe what it's like to live with a concussion. You want to enjoy things like you used to, but you can't. You wake up in the morning and wonder how you're going to feel that day: What will my reactions be like? Will I have a headache? Will I have to triple check to see if I unplugged the flat iron? "
Elana Meyers
Enjoy
Live
Day
" Anything worth having is worth working for. "
Elana Meyers
Having
Worth
Working
" After the situation I had with my concussion in 2015, how long and lasting the effects were, I'm just more careful about it. "
Elana Meyers
About
Situation
More
" Our sport is one of the few on the winter side that is so diverse. It shows we don't have to be limited by race or gender or whatever and how far we have come as a sport. "
Elana Meyers
Far
Race
Gender