What happens when speaking out costs you everything? For NCAA champion and Olympian Veronica Fraley, one tweet about her school shorting her rent money set off a chain of events that would change her career overnight.
In this raw conversation, Veronica opens up about the hidden struggles of being a non-football athlete in the NIL era, where resources, visibility and money often flow to the few while others are left scrambling. From finding out her rent wouldn’t be covered the night before competing on the Olympic stage, to being pressured to delete her words, blacklisted from her own school (and ultimately forced to move), Veronica shares what it’s really like behind the polished image of college athletics.
She speaks candidly about the financial inequities between football, basketball and Olympic-sport athletes, the pressure to stay silent even when institutions fail their players and the emotional toll of competing at the highest level while facing instability at home. What started as a simple tweet turned into a career-altering moment, exposing the darker realities of a system that often fails the very athletes it celebrates.
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