Coach Horton is in his fifth season at the helm of Papillion Lavista, south softball. He's in his 14th year as head coach and 23 years in fast pitch. I've had the opportunity to coach alongside Tom and his team as a mental performance coach. 

What I love most about working with high school athletes is the ability to support coaches as they build their culture and chase really big goals in such a short span of time. Here in Nebraska. We are one of the few states that softball is a fall sport. It's a grind and it lasts about eight weeks and 10 weeks. If you count pre-season and post-season, if you make it. Which is so cool because today we talk about that. How patio south has made it a new program standard to be a contender in the state championship. We break down the skills we worked on to make that possible when it started clicking with his team and how they ultimately took ownership of it and made it their own. So if you're a coach and you've been curious about how mental performance works, how to get your athletes to be all in and what kind of results it can create. 

Keep listening. As we peel back the layers to give you an inside, look of it all. Let's jump into today's episode.

Episode Highlights:

• How Coach Horton decided to prioritize mental performance to get his team ready for the season.
• How mental performance training gave the team a common language to work through set-backs.
• How mental performance coaching helped him understand and coach his players more effectively.
• The importance of communication on a team.
• Embracing a team identity 
• and much more!

Connect with Coach Horton:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/PLSTitansSB
• FB, Instagram: PLSTitansSB

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