Yesterday I was moved to write about former professional football player Marcus Smith and the story of his attempted suicide. The point parents must take away from stories like Smith’s is how critical it is to teach athletes mental skills. Today the mental skill I want to focus on deals with teaching athletes how to […]
Yesterday I received overwhelmingly positive feedback on my post about the four common emotional triggers in young athletes. The number of people who reached out to me about this article took me by surprise. Most of the feedback was to say how they could relate to dealing with those emotional triggers and to thank me […]
Pressure in the context of sports rears itself in the form of stress and anxiety. For young athletes who have their whole lives ahead of them, pressure situations should be few and far between. However, the truth is young athletes feel pressure all the time. Young athletes feel pressure to win, pressure to make a […]