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⏰ Key Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome & Introduction
01:32 Why Tryouts Matter
03:55 Building Your Tryout Plan
06:03 The Night Before
07:32 Nerves Are a Good Thing
09:31 Morning of Tryouts
10:02 During Tryouts
11:46 After Tryouts

👋🏼 I'm Coach Bre — a mental performance coach for girl athletes, Co-Founder of The Elite Competitor, and a former head volleyball coach and 4-time state champion.

This episode features Coach Saylor, one of our mental performance coaches inside The Elite Mental Game, teaching athletes exactly how to prepare for tryouts.

In this episode, Coach Saylor breaks down exactly how to help your athlete prepare for tryouts, from the training plan months out to the night-before checklist. She covers the mindset work most parents skip, and it's the piece that actually determines how tryout day feels.If your daughter has tryouts coming up this week or this season, this episode gives her (and you) a real plan instead of just "good luck."

What You'll Learn:
✅ How to build a tryout training timeline for the months, weeks, and night before tryouts
✅ Why nerves before tryouts are actually a good sign, and how to help her use them
✅ A simple visualization exercise that builds real confidence, not just hype
✅ What to say (and not say) about mistakes during and after tryouts
✅ Why the outcome of tryouts doesn't define who she is, and how to help her see that

💬 Moms — comment below: What's the one thing that actually helps your daughter calm down before a big tryout?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:
⚡️Reframing pre-performance anxiety as excitement improves confidence and performance (Brooks, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2014)
⚡️A 2025 study of 500 athletes found imagery ability is directly linked to athletic achievement level (Malinauskas et al., Frontiers in Psychology, 2025)
⚡️A meta-analysis of 32 studies found self-talk interventions produce a real, measurable improvement in sport performance (Hatzigeorgiadis et al., Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2011)

The Raising Elite Competitors podcast and YouTube channel is hosted by The Elite Competitor and is dedicated to helping sports moms strengthen their daughter's mental game and confidence in order to help her perform her best when it matters most.

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