A recent article of mine referred to the importance of investing in the coach-athlete relationship, suggesting that it is, ultimately, athletes’ perceptions of their coaches and their coach-athlete ...

I have coached multiple sports for over 30 years, and in that time, I have been able to reflect upon my own coaching strategies, tactics, and behaviors. When I was a young coach, I was very tough and ...

As a coach, you may assume that your role is to protect athletes from failure, make the decisions that you feel are in the best interest of the team, and generally keep the team’s results steady. But ...

DICK’S Sporting Goods announced the launch of Coach by DICK’S, an agentic AI-powered conversational experience designed to support athletes throughout their sports journeys. Integrated into the DICK’S ...

Breathe in for six seconds, hold for two seconds, breathe out for seven seconds. Selk encourages his athletes to do the mental workout at least three times a week and gives them a 72-hour rule: Don’t ...

In addition to injury prevention, athletic testing data from the NFL Draft process can provide some keen insight into which ...

Traci Statler is a mental performance coach for the Philadelphia Phillies. Before that, she was a college professor at Cal State Fullerton.