Tcu's Hailey Van Lith Glad To Have Shared Publicly About Mental Health Issues She Dealt With In Past

TCU standout guard Hailey Van Lith said that while difficult, she is glad to have shared publicly about mental health struggles she said she dealt with early in her basketball career.

"It's been very positive. I've received a lot of encouragement and also a lot of people, you know, sharing that they can relate or that I helped them feel understood," Van Lith said Wednesday. "That's the whole point."

Van Lith is getting ready to play in the Sweet 16 of the women's NCAA Tournament for the fifth season in a row. The Big 12 player of the year has helped lead the Horned Frogs that far for the first time, after going to a Final Four and two other Elite Eight games with Louisville before making another Elite Eight with LSU last year.

The dynamic guard, also a prominent figure on social media in the era of name, image and likeness, broke down in tears after TCU's second-round win Sunday over Louisville when asked about girls and boys of all ages wearing her No. 10 jersey and her being one of the faces for women's college basketball.

"I mean, it's a blessing. But I really - I'm really standing on God's shoulders right now. ... He's delivered me from so much, man, and so much pain and suffering and confusion," she said then through tears. "It's all glory to God, truly."