Premier Sport Psychology is excited to welcome Dr. Jaimie Rubin to our team. She will be starting August 2019 as a post doc! Read below to learn more about Jaimie! What sport do you enjoy playing the most?  Watching the most, I really enjoy getting to play any sport. I love any chance to be active and competitive especially getting to do so with friends! But if I had to chose my favorite to play is basketball. I played basketball in college and coached for five years after college. I love watching women’s and men’s college basketball, the women’s national soccer team, and of course my Giants and Yankees! Would […]

Premier Sport Psychology is excited to welcome Dr. Adam Gallenberg to our team. He will be starting August 2019 as a post doc! Read below to learn more about Adam! What has most drawn you to the field of sport psychology? I love the active aspect of the job, so spending time “on the field” with teams to conducting individual sessions in the office throughout the day makes the work exciting and unique. What sport do you enjoy playing the most? Watching the most? Although completely different, I enjoy participating in boxing and ballroom dancing equally. However, when it comes to watching, boxing definitely comes out on top. What’s one […]

Dr. Justin Anderson and Dr. Carlin Anderson were featured in the University of Minnesota and Gopher Athletics series “Minnesota Proud: Whole Body Health”. The University of Minnesota and Gopher Athletics cares about both the physical and mental well-being of its student-athletes.

The following are excerpts from “Underdogs? No respect? That’s the Patriots’ story and they’re sticking to it” at Philly.com. You can view the full article here. Nobody wants to be Goliath anymore. Everybody wants to be David, the scrappy, little slingshot-toting, 6½-point underdog. Even the NFL’s ultimate Goliath, the big, bad, fee-fi-fo-fum Patriots, who are making their ninth Super Bowl appearance in the last 18 years, have spent the last few weeks trying to convince everyone that they’re The Little Engine That Could. The beauty of being the underdog, according to sports psychologists, is that no one expects you to win, which means you’re dealing with less pressure. And less […]

The following are excerpts from “Student-athletes given more access to mental health services” at Chicago Sun-Times. You can view the full article here. As a high school swimmer, Northwestern University senior Jack Thorne was a three-time Colorado state champion and the No. 2 swimming recruit from the state. In college, he participated in U.S. National Swimming competitions and had a top 20 time at the 2018 Big Ten Championships. But outside the swimming pool, Thorne has experienced anxiety and depression since middle school, when he first began to think about his homosexuality. During his freshman year in college, he suffered a tear in his shoulder, causing him to miss the […]

Premier Sport Psychology is excited to introduce one of our Summer 2018 interns, Matt Bartholomew!  Read below to learn more about Matt. Let’s start with a fun fact about yourself. I won a collegiate national championship in handball with the University of Minnesota this last fall. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? I have always wanted to go to New Zealand, specifically the South Island. The pictures just look gorgeous, as there are beautiful coasts back-dropped by incredible mountain ranges. It is something I really need to see for myself. What is the best show you’ve watched on Netflix? The best show I’ve watched […]