Build A Winning Tradition

Your student athletes are likely concerned with their performances on the field, court, rink, or mat. We’ll help with that. Rest assured, however, that every step in this process will be building skills that foster overall wellness, build healthy relationships, and help manage the sport/life balance every student-athlete must contend with at some point in his/her career. Mental skills training begins with identifying what’s working in an athlete’s life, and what needs to be improved for the athlete to realize his/her full potential. Sport psychology reinforces this kind of awareness, and provides athletes with the skills to nourish what’s best in their lives, and address what’s holding them back.

As with sport participation, the skills we build are not just for sport, but for life. Understanding one’s role as an athlete and one’s responsibility to teammates, to coaches, and to a team tradition isn’t altogether different than understanding one’s role as a friend or a neighbor, and one’s duty to a larger community. Both require and build empathy, compassion, gratitude, and a sense of belonging to something greater than one’s self. Sport psychology embraces what’s best in sport, and applies it to life. Performance is performance, whether we’re performing as athletes or as citizens.

Create consistency in your student athletes, in good times and bad. Resilience, or grit, creates mental adaptability, allowing student-athletes to be more resistant to adversity and to rebound faster when setbacks inevitably hit. Resilience has been shown to be a more reliable predictor of success than intelligence or talent, so building skills to make your athletes’ resilience more robust is vital to any program.

The demands on coaches, support staff, and on-campus counseling centers are many. We can help. Regular sessions with sport psychologists, whether on campus or off, will allow us to monitor and assess the mental health of your athletes, provide guidance, and when necessary, immediate interventions to support the safety of your program and the well-being of your student athletes.