Aug 20, 2021
In this episode of the "Victory Over Injury" Podcast presented by Andrews Sports Medicine, Dr. Michael K. Ryan takes a special deep dive into the life, career and experience of Cassidy Lichtman. An incredibly accomplished individual, who has and continues to overcome pain, she sheds light on how to persevere against overwhelming odds.
Cassidy is an extremely
accomplished athlete, coach, and entrepreneur whose success could
have easily been derailed early in life. Yet, she possesses a
unique internal force that has allowed her to quiet and overcome a
chronic struggle that continues to affect her daily life. By
refusing to succumb to an atypical affiliation, and actively
choosing to respond with grit, will, optimism and purpose, our
guest was named Prep Volleyball High School Junior of the Year and
elected to the San Diego Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.
She was a four-year scholarship
athlete on the Stanford University women's volleyball team, and was
selected All-American First Team in 2009 and 2010, and First-Team
Academic All-American in 2010. She competed on the U.S. Women's
National Volleyball team from 2011 to 2016, making every roster in
2013 on her way to numerous international medals.
Cassidy took on coaching in 2016 as an assistant at Stanford and was part of the National Championship team that year. She founded “Play with Purpose” volleyball clinic, which supports the Ronald McDonald House, and recently launched P/ATH (Progress through Athletics) a platform that seeks to position the next generation of athletes for a better world through empathy and empowerment.