Raising Elite Competitors

Big games feel louder. Help her trust her training with mental training built for moms. Share with your athlete: What's Your Competitor Style Quiz → https://athlete.fyi/yt-quiz

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FREE for YOU:

🎓 Strengthen Your Athlete's Mental Game - Training for Parents → https://trainhergame.com/mom
📬 Join our weekly TIPS newsletter → https://sportsmom.fyi/yt-tips
💬 Use this Conversation Guide w/ Scripts to talk to your athlete about mental training → https://sportsmom.fyi/convo-guide
🎙 Listen to the Podcast: Raising Elite Competitors

FREE for Athletes:

🔹 Share with your athlete: What's Your Competitor Style Quiz → https://athlete.fyi/yt-quiz
🎥 YouTube Playlist for Athletes → https://www.youtube.com/@AthleteMentalEdge

OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS:

👉 Join The Elite Mental Game for girl athletes → https://trainhergame.com/yt-emg

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⏰ Key Timestamps:
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00:00 When Championship Pressure Takes Over
01:28 Why Big Games Feel Different
02:55 Confidence Is Self-Trust
03:53 Journal the Evidence: Trust Your Training
04:43 Build Your Highlight Reel Visualization
07:34 Find Your Competitor Style and Play Like You

👋🏼 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 is led by Coach Saylor 🎙 a mental performance coach for girl athletes and a former dual-sport college athlete, speaking straight to your daughter.

Mom, this one is made for your athlete, so share it with her before her next big game. Coach Saylor opens with the championship game she wishes she could replay, and what she'd tell her younger self now.

The court doesn't change in the postseason, the ball doesn't change, and the rules don't change. The moment just feels louder, and your daughter can learn to trust herself anyway.

🧐 What You'll Learn:

• Why big games feel different even when nothing about the game has changed
• What pressure does to her body and how it leads to hesitating and playing it safe
• How to build confidence as self-trust, backed by evidence she already has
• A journaling prompt she can use the night before a big competition
• The highlight reel visualization one of our athletes used during an undefeated conference championship season

💬 Moms, comment below: What does your daughter do right before a big game, go quiet, get chatty, or overthink every detail?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:

• Imagery training had a medium positive effect on motor performance in children and adolescents (International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2023)

• Imagery combined with physical practice was more effective than physical practice alone (International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2021)

• Across 41 articles, self-confidence showed a consistent positive relationship with sport performance (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022)

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.

#sportsmom #girlathletes #mentaltoughness #playoffpressure #volleyballmom

Pressure to win makes her play tight. Share this with your athlete to find her competitor style → https://athlete.fyi/yt-quiz

📌 Resources & Tools:
FREE for YOU:
🎓 Strengthen Your Athlete's Mental Game - Training for Parents → https://trainhergame.com/mom
📬 Join our weekly TIPS newsletter → https://sportsmom.fyi/yt-tips
💬 Use this Conversation Guide w/ Scripts to talk to your athlete about mental training → https://sportsmom.fyi/convo-guide
🎙 Listen to the Podcast: Raising Elite Competitors

FREE for Athletes:
🔹 Share with your athlete: What's Your Competitor Style Quiz → https://athlete.fyi/yt-quiz
🎥 YouTube Playlist for Athletes → https://www.youtube.com/@AthleteMentalEdge

OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS:
👉 Join The Elite Mental Game for girl athletes → https://trainhergame.com/yt-emg

Connect with us!
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👋🏼 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.

In this episode, our head athlete coach, Coach Saylor, sits down with Ada, our September Athlete of the Month and a freshman foil fencer who placed fifth at nationals. Ada shares the reset routine that stops her mistake spiral and the mindset shift that turned three rough days into her best fencing.

If your daughter dwells on one mistake until it turns into five, Ada's story will feel familiar. She used to replay a lost point all the way through the bout, and now she resets on the walk back to the line.

Three days into nationals, the pressure she was putting on herself to win was the thing holding her back. Then she sprained her ankle mid-bout, decided to fence for herself instead of the results, and had her best event of the week.

What You'll Learn:
✅ The reset routine Ada uses on the walk back after losing a point
✅ Why putting pressure on herself to win made her fence worse
✅ How she kept a sprained ankle at nationals from turning into a spiral
✅ The nightly 3-2-1 BRAVE and journaling habit she uses after practice
✅ Her advice for any athlete who doubts herself under pressure

💬 Moms, comment below: What does your daughter do in the first minute after she makes a mistake?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:
➡️ Process goals (focusing on what she can control) had the largest effect on sport performance, while outcome goals like winning had the smallest (Williamson et al., International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2022)
➡️ Across 15 sports and 800 athletes, those who used a pre-performance routine outperformed those who didn't (Rupprecht, Tran & Gröpel, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2021)
➡️ Visualization paired with physical practice improved performance more than physical practice alone (Simonsmeier et al., International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2021)

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.

#sportsmom #girlathletes #mentalgame #fencing #mentaltoughness

Send this to your athlete if being hard on herself is wrecking her game. 🧠 Learn more here, mom → https://elitecompetitor.com/athlete

📌 Resources & Tools:

FREE for YOU:
🎓 Strengthen Your Athlete's Mental Game - Training for Parents → https://trainhergame.com/mom
📬 Join our weekly TIPS newsletter → https://sportsmom.fyi/yt-tips
💬 Use this Conversation Guide w/ Scripts to talk to your athlete about mental training → https://sportsmom.fyi/convo-guide
🎙 Listen to the Podcast: Raising Elite Competitors

FREE for Athletes:
🔹 Share with your athlete: What's Your Competitor Style Quiz → https://athlete.fyi/yt-quiz
🎥 YouTube Playlist for Athletes → https://www.youtube.com/@AthleteMentalEdge
OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS:👉 Join The Elite Mental Game for girl athletes → https://trainhergame.com/yt-emg

Connect with us!
IG: ➡︎ https://www.instagram.com/elitecompetitorcoach
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YouTube: ➡︎ SUBSCRIBE 🙌🏼 and hang out in our community here with us!

⏰ Key Timestamps:

👋🏼 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.

Athletes, if one mistake turns into "I'm terrible" and wrecks the rest of your day, this one's for you. Your high standards are a strength, but tearing yourself down after every error isn't what's making you better.

I'll walk you through the thought wheel and show you why the voice in your head after a mistake decides how you play the next rep. Then you'll learn how to keep your standards high and change that voice into something that helps you.

What You'll Learn:
✅ The difference between high standards and being mean to yourself- How to be a perfectionist about the process, not the outcome
✅ The thought wheel and how one thought turns a single mistake into a spiral
✅ What to say to yourself right after an error (it doesn't have to be super positive)
✅ The teammate test for talking to yourself after a bad play

💬 Moms, comment below: What does your daughter say about herself on the car ride home after a bad practice?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:
👉Self-talk training produced a moderate, positive boost in sport performance across 32 studies (Hatzigeorgiadis et al., Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2011)
👉Striving for high standards showed little to no link to burnout, while worrying about mistakes and others' judgment showed a medium-to-large link (Hill & Curran, Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2016)
👉Socially prescribed perfectionism, the feeling that others expect you to be perfect, rose 33% among young people from 1989 to 2016 (Curran & Hill, Psychological Bulletin, 2019)

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.

#sportsmom #girlathletes #perfectionism #mentalperformance #athletementalhealth

One mistake and she spirals. 'Shake it off' isn't helping. She needs a tool, not a pep talk. Learn more here, mom → https://trainhergame.com/mom

📌 Resources & Tools:

FREE for YOU:
🎓 Strengthen Your Athlete's Mental Game - Training for Parents → https://trainhergame.com/mom
📬 Join our weekly TIPS newsletter → https://sportsmom.fyi/yt-tips
💬 Use this Conversation Guide w/ Scripts to talk to your athlete about mental training → https://sportsmom.fyi/convo-guide
🎙 Listen to the Podcast: Raising Elite Competitors

FREE for Athletes:
🔹 Share with your athlete: What's Your Competitor Style Quiz → https://athlete.fyi/yt-quiz
🎥 YouTube Playlist for Athletes → https://www.youtube.com/@AthleteMentalEdge

OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAM:
👉 Join The Elite Mental Game for girl athletes → https://trainhergame.com/yt-emg

Connect with us!
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YouTube: ➡︎ SUBSCRIBE 🙌🏼 and hang out in our community here with us!

⏰ Key Timestamps:
00:00 The Mistake Spiral 
00:36 Meet Coach Bre 
01:36 What's Happening in Her Brain 
02:47 Why 'Shake It Off' Fails 
03:22 Three Steps to Bounce Back 
05:05 The Snapback Routine 
06:16 Mental Skills Take Practice 
07:57 Free Training & Resources

👋🏼 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.

You've watched it happen. One missed play turns into two, three, four, and no amount of "next play" from the stands seems to reach her. Those words aren't wrong, they're just the outcome you want. In this episode I'm breaking down the actual skill she needs to get there.

What You'll Learn:
✅ Why "shake it off" and "next play" don't stick when she's already spiraling
✅ What's often going on in her head after one mistake
✅ The Performance Traffic Light and how to catch the shift from green to yellow before she hits red
✅ The SnapBack Routine: a breath, a reset word, and a reset signal in two seconds or less
✅ Why mental skills need daily practice just like passing, shooting, or swimming

💬 Moms, comment below: What does her body language look like when one mistake starts turning into three?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:
👉Athletes who used a short routine before performing did measurably better, including under pressure, no matter how simple the routine was (Rupprecht, Tran & Gröpel, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2021)
👉Across 32 studies, self-talk training improved sport performance with a moderate effect (Hatzigeorgiadis et al., Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2011)
👉Self-critical female athletes who learned to treat themselves with more kindness showed less rumination and less concern over mistakes a month later (Mosewich et al., Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 2013)

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.

#sportsmom #girlathletes #mentalgame #volleyballmom #volleyball #girldad #soccer #basketball #tennis #golf #fencing #lacrosse #swimming #softball #track #gymnastics #cheerleading

A mental reset helped Maya land a skill she chased for months. Help your daughter build hers. 🧠 Learn more here, mom → https://trainhergame.com/mom

📌 Resources & Tools:

FREE for YOU:
🎓 Strengthen Your Athlete's Mental Game - Training for Parents → https://trainhergame.com/mom
📬 Join our weekly TIPS newsletter → https://sportsmom.fyi/yt-tips
💬 Use this Conversation Guide w/ Scripts to talk to your athlete about mental training → https://sportsmom.fyi/convo-guide
🎙 Listen to the Podcast: Raising Elite Competitors

FREE for Athletes:
🔹 Share with your athlete: What's Your Competitor Style Quiz → https://athlete.fyi/yt-quiz
🎥 YouTube Playlist for Athletes → https://www.youtube.com/@AthleteMentalEdge

OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS:
👉 Join The Elite Mental Game for girl athletes → https://trainhergame.com/yt-emg

Connect with us!
IG: ➡︎ https://www.instagram.com/elitecompetitorcoach
Tik Tok: ➡︎ https://www.tiktok.com/@raisingelitecompetitors
YouTube: ➡︎ SUBSCRIBE 🙌🏼 and hang out in our community here with us!

⏰ Key Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome & Introduction 
00:45 The Cody Story 
02:38 Breaking Down the Practice 
04:34 The Snapback Routine 
05:23 Life Before Mental Training 
07:08 Advice & What's Next

👋🏼 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.🏆 

In this episode, Coach Saylor, a mental performance coach inside our Elite Competitor Academy, sits down with Maya, our August Athlete of the Month and a Level 7 trampoline and tumbling athlete.

Maya spent five months working on a skill she needed to move up a level. The missing piece showed up on a practice she walked into tired and doubtful, when she leaned on her mental reset and went for it.

She shares her exact Snapback Routine word and signal, plus what changed after one mistake used to end her whole practice.

What You'll Learn:
✅ The mental reset Maya used right before she landed her skill
✅ What a cue word and physical signal look like in a real routine
✅ Why a breakthrough doesn't wait for a good-feeling day
✅ How visualization helped her trust the skill before she landed it
✅ The advice Maya gives athletes who are stuck and losing hope

💬 Moms, comment below: What skill or moment has your daughter been stuck on the longest this season?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:
👉Pre-performance routines showed moderate-to-large performance benefits under pressure, across 15 sports and 800 athletes (Rupprecht, Tran & Gröpel, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2021)
👉Imagery combined with physical practice was more effective than physical practice alone (Simonsmeier et al., International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2021)
👉Self-talk interventions were more effective for new skills than for well-learned ones (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.

#sportsmom #girlathletes #athleteconfidence #gymnasticsmom #mentaltoughness #mentaltoughness #girlsports #sportsparents #basketball #soccer #highschoolsports #collegesports #fencing #gymnastics #competitivecheer #volleyball #drama #swimming #lacrosse #tennis #golf #athleteconfidence #girlconfidence #daughter #girldad

Her mental game needs reps too. See how the Elite Competitor Academy covers this gap in just 30 minutes a week, and how you help. Learn more here → https://trainhergame.com/yt-emg

📌 Resources & Tools:

FREE for YOU:
🎓 Strengthen Your Athlete's Mental Game - Training for Parents → https://trainhergame.com/mom
📬 Join our weekly TIPS newsletter → https://sportsmom.fyi/yt-tips
💬 Use this Conversation Guide w/ Scripts to talk to your athlete about mental training → https://sportsmom.fyi/convo-guide
🎙 Listen to the Podcast: Raising Elite Competitors

FREE for Athletes:
🔹 Share with your athlete: What's Your Competitor Style Quiz → https://athlete.fyi/yt-quiz
🎥 YouTube Playlist for Athletes → https://www.youtube.com/@AthleteMentalEdge

OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS:
👉 Join The Elite Mental Game for girl athletes → https://trainhergame.com/yt-emg

Connect with us!
IG: ➡︎ https://www.instagram.com/elitecompetitorcoach
Tik Tok: ➡︎ https://www.tiktok.com/@raisingelitecompetitors
YouTube: ➡︎ SUBSCRIBE 🙌🏼 and hang out in our community here with us!

⏰ Key Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:22 What is the Elite Competitor Academy
01:48 Why Our Approach is Different
03:36 How It Works: Getting Started
05:01 The Trainings & Daily Routine
08:21 Live Coaching: Elite Competitor Premier
11:34 Real Family Results
13:32 Common Questions & Pricing

👋🏼 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.

She goes to practice to build her physical skills and the weight room to get faster and stronger. Her mental game needs the same reps, and the mind gym takes about 30 minutes a week.I walk you through the Elite Competitor Academy, what happens in her first week, where you fit in, and the questions moms ask most before joining.

What You'll Learn:
✅ What 30 minutes a week in the "mind gym" looks like for her
✅ The SnapBack Routine she learns in week one to get over mistakes fast
✅ Why her 3-2-1 BRAVE daily routine gets repeated every new season
✅ How the welcome call gets your daughter bought in, so you don't have to do the convincing
✅ How the parent track gives you scripts for after a bad game, tough coaches, and politics

💬 Moms, comment below: Which skill gets the most practice time in her week right now?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:
👉Girls who drop out of sports report significantly more worries about messing up, not playing well, and losing than girls who keep playing (Women's Sports Foundation, 2020)
👉Pre-performance routines improved sport performance in a meta-analysis of 112 effect sizes, including under pressure (International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2021)-
👉Psychological skills training outperformed no training with moderate effects on athletic performance in a systematic review (Sports Medicine, 2024)

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.

#sportsmom #girlathletes #mentaltraining #mentalgame #raisingelitecompetitors

Parents worry that mental training just feels like "one more thing." Here's how these moms and daughters actually fit it in. Learn more here → https://trainhergame.com/mom

📌 Resources & Tools:

FREE for YOU:
🎓 Strengthen Your Athlete's Mental Game - Training for Parents → https://trainhergame.com/mom
📬 Join our weekly TIPS newsletter → https://sportsmom.fyi/yt-tips
💬 Use this Conversation Guide w/ Scripts to talk to your athlete about mental training → https://sportsmom.fyi/convo-guide
🎙 Listen to the Podcast: Raising Elite Competitors

FREE for Athletes:
🔹 Share with your athlete: What's Your Competitor Style Quiz → https://athlete.fyi/yt-quiz
🎥 YouTube Playlist for Athletes → https://www.youtube.com/@AthleteMentalEdge

OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS:
👉 Join The Elite Mental Game for girl athletes → https://trainhergame.com/yt-emg

Connect with us!

IG: ➡︎ https://www.instagram.com/elitecompetitorcoach
Tik Tok: ➡︎ https://www.tiktok.com/@raisingelitecompetitors
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⏰ Key Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Fitting Mental Training Into a Busy Schedule
02:52 How Parents Engage with the Program
03:48 Ella's Experience as a Swimmer
05:16 Individual vs. Team Sports
07:50 Why the Elite Competitor Academy Works

👋🏼 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.

🎤 Joined by two Elite Competitor Academy families, Michelle and her daughter Elise, and Danyell and her daughter Ella, sharing what changed for them inside the program. 

Elise shares exactly how she fits her mental training into car rides before and after games, and why it never felt like another huge commitment on top of school and practice. You'll also hear Ella break down how the mental game applies differently for a solo sport like swimming versus a team sport like soccer.

What You'll Learn:
How Elise fits her mental training into 15-minute car rides, before or after games
Why the program never felt like "more school" once she actually started
How Michelle and Danyell stayed involved as parents without micromanaging it
What changes for an individual-sport athlete versus a team-sport athlete
Why every athlete, solo or team, needs these skills for a different reason

💬 Moms — comment below: What's the one thing that makes you worry a new program will be "one more thing" for your athlete?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:
Individual-sport athletes report anxiety or depression at nearly double the rate of team-sport athletes, 13% versus 7% (Pluhar et al., Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 2019)
Self-talk and anxiety patterns differ meaningfully between individual and team versions of the same sport, tied to how responsibility is structured (Journal of Human Kinetics, 2025)
A meta-analysis of 86 studies and over 3,500 athletes found that about 10 minutes of imagery practice, three times a week, produced the strongest performance gains (Behavioral Sciences, 2025)

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.

#sportsmom #mentalgame #girlathletes #sportsparenting #confidentathletes #visualizationforathletes #mentaltraining

Two moms share how they help their daughters bounce back from a bad play in minutes. Parents... Join me LIVE this week to learn more → https://trainhergame.com/mom

📌 Resources & Tools:

FREE for YOU:
🎓 Strengthen Your Athlete's Mental Game - Training for Parents → https://trainhergame.com/mom
📬 Join our weekly TIPS newsletter → https://sportsmom.fyi/yt-tips
💬 Use this Conversation Guide w/ Scripts to talk to your athlete about mental training → https://sportsmom.fyi/convo-guide
🎙 Listen to the Podcast: Raising Elite Competitors

FREE for Athletes:
🔹 Share with your athlete: What's Your Competitor Style Quiz → https://athlete.fyi/yt-quiz
🎥 YouTube Playlist for Athletes → https://www.youtube.com/@AthleteMentalEdge

OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS:
👉 Join The Elite Mental Game for girl athletes → https://trainhergame.com/yt-emg

Connect with us
IG: ➡︎ https://www.instagram.com/elitecompetitorcoach
Tik Tok: ➡︎ https://www.tiktok.com/@raisingelitecompetitors
YouTube: ➡︎ SUBSCRIBE 🙌🏼 and hang out in our community here with us!

⏰ Key Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:39 Elise's Breakthrough on the Field
02:06 The Trust Yourself Trick
03:25 Ella's Pool Adaptation
05:10 Parents' New Playbook
07:45 Join the Elite Competitor Academy

👋🏼 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.

🎤 Joined by two Elite Competitor Academy families, Michelle and her daughter Elise, and Danyell and her daughter Ella, sharing what changed for them inside the program.

Michelle shares the exact wristband trick she uses to remind Elise to trust herself mid-game, and Danyell describes how quickly Ella recovers between swims when she has a rough one.

Both moms also open up about how they changed the way they talk to their daughters after a game, swapping quick fixes for real support.

What You'll Learn:
✅ The exact wristband trick Michelle uses to remind Elise to trust her skills mid-game
✅ How Ella "knocks off" a bad swim and preps for the next one like it's brand new
✅ Why Elise's coach noticed a change before she said anything about it
✅ The shift from outcome praise to process praise, and why it reprograms self-talk
✅ What changed once both moms stopped focusing on what could've gone better

💬 Moms — comment below: What's one thing you say to your daughter right after a tough game or match?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:
👉Parents who give process-oriented feedback, focused on effort and strategy over outcome, support their young athlete's motivation more effectively (Motivation and Emotion, 2023)
👉A study of 46 NCAA Division I swimmers found that a structured pre-performance routine led to more helpful emotions and less intense negative emotions before racing (The Sport Psychologist, 2021)
👉A 2025 study of young elite athletes found that how quickly and constructively an athlete processes a mistake, not whether she dwells on it at all, was linked to better perceived performance (Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2025)

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.

#sportsmom #mentalgame #girlathletes #confidentathletes #sportsparenting

Your daughter doesn't need to love mental training to benefit from it. Here's why mental toughness for athletes starts before buy-in, and what actually happens on a Welcome Call. Learn more here, mom → elitecompetitor.com/emg

📌 Resources & Tools:

FREE for YOU:🎓 Strengthen Your Athlete's Mental Game - Training for Parents → https://trainhergame.com/mom
📬 Join our weekly TIPS newsletter → https://sportsmom.fyi/yt-tips
💬 Use this Conversation Guide w/ Scripts to talk to your athlete about mental training → https://sportsmom.fyi/convo-guide
🎙 Listen to the Podcast: Raising Elite Competitors

FREE for Athletes:
🔹 Share with your athlete: What's Your Competitor Style Quiz → https://athlete.fyi/yt-quiz
🎥 YouTube Playlist for Athletes → https://www.youtube.com/@AthleteMentalEdge

OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS:
👉 Join The Elite Mental Game for girl athletes → https://trainhergame.com/yt-emg

Connect with us!
IG: ➡︎ https://www.instagram.com/elitecompetitorcoach
Tik Tok: ➡︎ https://www.tiktok.com/@raisingelitecompetitors
YouTube: ➡︎ SUBSCRIBE 🙌🏼 and hang out in our community here with us!

⏰ Key Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:54 Community Shoutouts
02:03 She's Not Broken, Just Untrained
04:13 How to Get Her Bought In
05:59 Mental Training as a Skill
07:43 Proof It Works
09:12 How to Bring It Up
10:53 Closing Thoughts

👋🏼 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.

You already believe mental training matters for your daughter. The hard part is actually bringing it up without making her feel like something's wrong with her.

What You'll Learn:
✅ Why your daughter isn't broken, she's simply untrained in one specific skill
✅ Why there's no perfect script, and what to focus on instead
✅ Why she doesn't have to be excited about this for it to be the right move
✅ The specific order kids move through before they actually buy in
✅ What happens on a Welcome Call, and why most skeptical athletes leave convinced

💬 Moms — comment below: What's the one thing that's made you hesitate to bring this up with her?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:
👉A 3-week psychological skills program produced significant gains in young athletes' domain-specific self-esteem, including athletic competence (Merlin et al., Pediatric Exercise Science, 2024)
👉An 8-week psychological skills training program significantly reduced competitive anxiety in adolescent athletes, with the effect still holding 3 months later (Bai et al., Social Behavior and Personality, 2026)
👉Autonomy-supportive parenting was linked to greater persistence and better self-regulation in adolescents completing tasks they weren't initially enthusiastic about (Papa et al., School Mental Health, 2026)

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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⏰ Key Timestamps:
00:00 Intro: Freezing Under Pressure
00:55 Mackenzie's Story
02:35 What Happens in Your Brain
04:10 Tip 1: Name It to Tame It
05:11 Tip 2: Anchor and Go
06:29 Tip 3: Bridge Practice and Games
08:41 Recap and Outro

👋🏼 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 is hosted by Coach Saylor, our mental performance coach for competitive girl athletes inside the Elite Competitor Academy.

In this episode, Coach Saylor breaks down why athletes who look sharp in practice can suddenly freeze the moment a real competition is on the line. She shares the science behind it, plus three tools you can start using with your daughter today.

Coach Saylor also shares a real message from one of our Elite Competitor Academy athletes who used these exact tools to compete like she practices and post some of her best results yet.

What You'll Learn:
Why skills that feel automatic in practice can break down the moment pressure shows up
The "name it to tame it" step that takes the power out of a pressure spiral
A simple pre-play anchor routine (breath, cue word, physical signal) to reset instantly
How to build practice on purpose so game pressure stops feeling foreign
Why her past training is the strongest fuel for her present confidence

💬 Moms — comment below: When does your daughter's practice-brilliance disappear the most? Big tournaments, playoffs, or when a college coach is watching?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:-
77% of athletes experience choking under pressure at least once a year, averaging 18.25 times (Mesagno, Hammond & Goodyear, 2024)

A meta-analysis of 800 athletes across 15 sports found pre-performance routines produce moderate-to-large performance gains specifically under pressure (Rupprecht, Tran & Gröpel, 2021)

Competitive performance anxiety in young athletes is rising due to early specialization and year-round training, and it directly interferes with executing trained skills (McDuff, Garvin & Marsalis, 2025)

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.

#sportsmom #mentalperformance #girlathletes #confidencecoach #athletemindset