Join the Phillies for the second Strike Out the Stigma panel discussion of the 2024 season at Citizens Bank Park on Saturday, May 4 at 4 p.m. when the Phillies host the San Francisco Giants (game time is 6:05 p.m.).
You are invited to join for a conversation centered around this month’s topic: Mental Health Awareness Month and Mental Health in Sports.
Tickets for this event are available in select seating locations for the first 130 fans.
At checkout, a $4 per ticket Group Fundraiser Rebate fee will be applied to your order, and those proceeds will benefit Minding Your Mind.
Minding Your Mind is a non-profit who specializes in providing mental health education to adolescents, teens and young adults, their parents, teachers, and school administrators.
Check-in begins at 3:30 p.m. The panel portion of the program will start promptly at 4 p.m. and continues until 5 p.m.
To obtain access to the event, Theme Night ticket(s) must be purchased directly from the link above. Third-party purchases will not include access to the event, and this is not a ballpark-wide promotion. For more information on this event please contact the Group Sales office at 215-463-1000.
Drew is entering his third full year under the baseball operations side of the San Francisco Giants organization assisting Dr. Shana Alexander and Dr. Emily Cheatum in the mental health & wellness department. He is in charge of creating a Peer Support Program throughout the organization to help players & staff start their own conversations regarding their mental and emotional wellbeing.
Born and raised in Las Vegas, NV, Drew signed his first professional player contract with the Texas Rangers out of high school and went on to play parts of 12 seasons with Rangers, Cardinals and Giants while spending parts of 3 seasons at the major league level. In February of 2020, he and ESPN released an E60 documentary on his survived suicide attempt and eventual comeback to professional baseball after losing his right eye in his incident, in hopes to create awareness and end the stigma surrounding mental health. He hopes his story will help people share his passion to be vulnerable with different self-care techniques to avoid getting to the headspace he experienced that lead to his attempt.
Dr. Shana Alexander Director Mental Health & Wellness, & EAP Dr. Shana Alexander enters her fifth year with the San Francisco Giants as the Director of Mental Health & Wellness & EAP, where she is responsible for both on and off the field mental health needs and performance enhancement of players and staff.
Alexander earned her bachelor’s degree from UC Davis and her master’s and Doctorate at Argosy University in the Bay Area, CA. She was trained as a generalist but specializes in sport and health psychology. Alexander has also worked internationally in Sydney, Australia and in many other diverse settings. She was born in Lawrence, KS but calls Northern California home.
Dr. Deanna Nobleza is Director of Mental Health for the Philadelphia Phillies. In this role, she oversees the implementation of mental health services and programming for players, coaches, and staff. Dr. Nobleza completed her medical degree and combined residency in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She was the first staff psychiatrist at Princeton University where she worked with Division I athletes. Prior to joining the Phillies, Dr. Nobleza served as assistant provost and student counseling director at Thomas Jefferson University and helped develop the COVID-19 behavioral health response for the Jefferson Enterprise.
