Onrise Care

03/04/2026

Sequoia Holmes didn’t just play the game — she left it better than she found it.

On Saturday in Nashville, Sequoia officially closed her professional basketball career with her final appearance on Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball Championship Day, helping Team Rhythm earn a win in her last game.

But the stat line is only part of the story: across 36 AU games, Sequoia averaged 4.5 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 1.6 assists — and in 2025 she delivered her most extensive AU season, starting all 12 games and finishing 19th overall on the leaderboard.

What stands out most is what she’s built beyond the court.

Sequoia was named the 2025 Athletes Unlimited Civic Leadership Award recipient for her commitment to community impact, including her work as Assistant Director of the Vegas Elite Girls Basketball Club — creating mentorship and leadership pathways for girls ages 5–18.

After her final game, she said it best:
“AU… has been just a family to me when I didn’t really feel like other places wanted me to be there… for AU to call and say, ‘we need you here,’ made me feel like it was all worth it.”

At Onrise, we talk a lot about what it means to support athletes as whole humans — through pressure, transition, identity shifts, and the quiet moments people don’t see. Retirement is one of the biggest transitions an athlete will ever face, and every athlete deserves to step away with recognition, dignity, and community.

Well done, Sequoia.

And well done to Athletes Unlimited for consistently making athletes feel seen, valued, and celebrated — the way it should be.

03/02/2026

Sports betting is no longer “around” athletics—it’s woven into it: broadcasts, apps, group chats, locker rooms.

For student-athletes especially, it often starts innocently. Then it accelerates. And by the time it feels like a problem, shame can keep them from turning to family—or even the in-house resources meant to help.

That’s why Onrise is partnering with EPIC Global Solutions to strengthen gambling harm prevention and support for athletes and coaches at the professional and collegiate level.

EPIC’s education is powerful because it’s grounded in lived experience—real people who understand how quickly gambling can take hold. Together, EPIC will support our peer support experts at Onrise with face-to-face and digital education options for sports organizations, helping athletes build safer, healthier relationships with gambling products before things spiral.

This partnership plugs directly into what Onrise already provides—always-on, athlete-specific care delivered through secure 1:1 sessions with flexible scheduling. And it strengthens our ability to support athletes who are dealing with the consequences, as well as those trying to prevent them.

We have to get in early. Spot risk sooner. Intervene faster. Protect athletes’ health, futures, and the team communities depending on them.

As Problem Gambling Awareness Month begins, we’re grateful to stand alongside EPIC—and to keep building the infrastructure athletes deserve.

Photo: Bobby L. Scales, II, Paul Buck, Stevin Hedake Smith, and Kim Quigley

02/17/2026

The data is undeniable.

Athletes with moderate to severe depression show a 6.09 point reduction in distress scores—a 74% decrease on validated measures. Peak severity drops from 8.18 to 2.09 in stabilization on the PHQ-4.

This level of improvement isn't theoretical. It's associated in the literature with substantial reductions in su***de risk.

We don't build wellness apps. We build clinically-governed infrastructure designed for rapid stabilization, early intervention, and prevention of escalation.

This is what happens when you combine licensed clinicians, certified peer supporters, and 24/7 crisis care into one integrated system.

02/06/2026

Athletic Directors: thank you.

At Onrise, we’re a clinician-led team—and we all work directly with patients. So we see, in real time, what athletes are carrying and where the system can break.

Yesterday, an athlete was about to run out of an uncommon medication at home. Within hours, the athletic director, the sports medicine physician, and our clinical team coordinated to get it prescribed and filled that same day—so the athlete had a seamless experience and one less thing to worry about.

That’s the work. Quiet. Fast. Human. And it only happens when ADs advocate the way you do.

To every athletic director leading departments, managing risk, and still showing up for individual athletes: we see you, and we’re grateful to partner with you.

02/03/2026

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Can you feel the love, care and support we give to all of the athletes that we serve?

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01/29/2026

Proud to share that UKMC has contracted Onrise to expand access to modern, athlete-centered mental health support.

This partnership is designed to support and extend UKMC’s in-house medical staff and athletic trainers by providing athletes an additional, confidential layer of care—peer support, therapy, psychiatry as needed, and 24/7/365 crisis coverage, all virtual.

We’re grateful to the UKMC team for prioritizing whole-person performance and building durable systems of support for athletes, especially the leadership of Keith Garnett and Ursula Gurney.

Go Roos!

01/28/2026

ATs already do enough. Don’t ask them to carry mental health alone.

Onrise gives athletic trainers a fast, trusted place to send athletes—without weeks-long waits:

Guaranteed access within 48 hours
24/7/365 crisis services
Mental health care designed for athletics

If you’re trying to retain great ATs, this is real backup.

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01/27/2026

Welcome to the Onrise team, Georgetown Athletics.

Sometimes athletes don’t want to start with a clinician.

And sometimes they don’t want to talk to anyone inside the department.

They want someone external. Neutral. Confidential. Who’s been in their shoes.

That’s why Georgetown is supplementing its already-robust in-house clinical team with Onrise—because they understand what more programs are learning fast: one size never fits all.

Through this partnership, Hoya student-athletes across 13 women’s and 11 men’s sports now have access to on-demand, virtual 1:1 peer support from former college and professional athletes—Mental Health First Aid certified, trained, and clinically supervised—with flexible scheduling after-hours and in the offseason.

Proud to support a department that treats mental health like real infrastructure.

Hoya Saxa!

01/26/2026

Onrise is proud to attend the 2026 Black Men’s Brain Health Conference (Feb 3–4), centered on the theme: “The Power of Community Engagement: Transforming Black Men’s Participation in Brain Health and AD/ADRD Research.”

This convening brings together researchers, community leaders, veterans, and community members to elevate community voices and expand Black men’s roles in brain health research—so participation is meaningful, trusted, and beneficial for the communities it’s meant to serve.

Our teammate Dartez Jacobs will be there in Oakland. If you’re attending in person at Merritt College or joining virtually, we’d love to connect.

Free registration is open to all: https://hubs.la/Q040c8PW0

01/25/2026

Championship season is a nervous system problem as much as a training problem.

Late in a long winter season (basketball, wrestling, swim & dive), a lot of athletes aren’t just tired.

They’re wired.

So when they finally get a day off, “just rest” can backfire.
Not because they’re undisciplined—because their brain has been trained to equate slowing down with:

-falling behind
-letting people down
-losing their edge

That’s how you get the two extremes:

-keep pushing hard on the off day
-shut down completely and feel guilty about it

Here’s the middle path we like in championship phase:

Slow Stretching Sunday (or any day off).

Not training. Not quitting. Downshifting on purpose.

Pick 2 today:

-20–30 min slow mobility + long exhales (hips/ankles/T-spine)
-easy walk outside + sunlight
-light band work (shoulders/hips/feet)
-gentle soft tissue + hot shower
-early bedtime + consistent wake time (structure calms the brain)

If you want a simple recovery signal:

-collagen + vitamin C (tendon/joint support)
-turmeric/curcumin if it sits well with you

The goal isn’t to do more.
It’s to teach your body: “we’re safe.”

That’s how you stay durable and show up calm and sharp when it counts.

If you’re coaching winter athletes: consider making “day-off recovery” a team standard, not an individual guess.

Photo: Members of the Kansas football team during a yoga session.

01/24/2026

01/22/2026

Athletic departments don’t need another “resource.”

They need mental health infrastructure that’s live fast—and athletes actually use.

That’s why we built Onrise to launch in 1 day (and get athletes into care within 48 hours):

No new hires. No waitlists.
24/7/365 crisis services
Peer support from retired athletes (the trust layer that drives utilization)
Therapy + psychiatry when needed

100% private. Minimal lift for your staff

If you’re an AD / SWA / sports medicine leader trying to expand support without expanding headcount, we will send pricing and a 10‑minute overview.

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