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Wooldridge struggled with mental health

Bates said Wooldridge had battled at times with his mental health, but the news left everyone "just gut-wrenched".

"Really can't believe it, it's something that most of us didn't see it coming," he said.

"Stephen is so well loved and liked by so many. He's got no idea how much effect he's had on people."

Former Olympian Gearoid Towey, the founder of Crossing the Line, which supports athletes transitioning from professional sport, said Wooldridge's death was "devastating for the sporting community".

"It's one that happens not regularly, but it happens from time to time," he said.

"It just shows you that the athlete community are just as vulnerable to mental health problems as the general population."

The death of Wooldridge came just months after former Wallaby Dan Vickerman took his own life, sparking a broader conversation on mental health among the elite sporting community.

Frank Broyles, a revered football coach and athletic director who helped lift the University of Arkansas into the top ranks of college sports, most memorably by leading the Razorbacks to an undefeated season in 1964 and their only national championship, died on Monday in Fayetteville, Ark. He was 92.
A statement by his family said the cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
The Razorbacks had been a doormat for powerful Texas teams in the Southwest Conference when Broyles left the head coaching job at the University of Missouri to take over the Arkansas football program in Fayetteville in 1958.