Help Your Athletes Close out Competitions Are your sports kids confident in their ability to close out games? Or do they get scared and play sloppily when their team is ahead? Whether your kids play soccer, …
Helping Sports Kids Avoid Burnout
The Importance of Balance in an Athlete's Life Hernan Chousa is a former tennis pro and sports dad to a tennis player who is now playing at a Division 1 college. His son started playing early, and burnt out at age …
Help Young Athletes Build Trust and Confidence
Two Mental Skills Important for Success Trust and confidence are very important for young athletes' success in sports and are interrelated. If athletes lack confidence, they don’t believe in their ability to …
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Give Sports Kids Tanglible Goals
How to Keep Sports Kids Motivated For Cami Hawkins, CEO of Marathon Kids, an organization that provides resources for schools to start running clubs, motivating kids is all about setting small goals and celebrating …
Improve Sports Kids’ Confidence and Focus
How to Use Mental Imagery to Boost Performance Mental imagery is a useful mental game skill that can improve young athletes’ performance. Many athletes have experienced success using visualization daily in their …
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Helping Young Athletes Stay Calm
How to Move on After Mistakes Many sports kids feel that achieving peak performance means that they must have a perfect performance or game. However, this mindset can hurt kids’ mental game and performance. These …