Sports Psychology
Coach Doron
Agenda
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Who I am
Introduction to Sports Psychology
Role of a Sports Psychology Coach
Give you tips on specific mental skills such
as confidence, dealing with pressure and
routines
Homefun 
My Name
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Coach Doron
Coach “D”
Sports Psychology Coach
Education
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University degrees in:
Psychology
Graduate Diploma in Sports
administration &
Masters in Sports Psychology
Studied extensively the characteristics of
peak performance or flow
Experience
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Two businesses – Flow in Sports
(www.flowinsports.com) & TSPA (Tennis and
Sports Psychology Academy) www.tspa.ca
Both are related to sports psychology
Work with professional athletes of all kinds of
different sports
Concordia University Stingers Football team’s,
recreational hockey referees sports psychology
coach
Introduction
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We often hear that the game is 90%
mental or more
Often more so the higher up the
performance (from recreation  city 
provincials  national  international or
professional
Unfortunately, at the lower level, athletes
either do not know how to improve their
mental skills or spend little or no time
working on the mental part of their game
Introduction
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Unfortunately, it is often viewed as something
necessary for the weak-minded competitor who
has “issues.” The reality is that the mental game
of sports affects every athlete, no matter what
their strengths or weaknesses may be.
Physical vs psychological
Physical (how fast, tall, muscle etc.).
Psychological (confidence, attitude, mental
imagery, self-talk, routines, goal setting etc.).
Definitions
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Psychology: The study of human and
animal behavior. Also considered the study
of the mind.
Sports psychology: It is the principles of
psychology used in a sport setting.
Through sport psychology, an athlete can
gain the “mental edge”, “mental
toughness” or improve their mental skills.
Confidence – a belief in yourself; self-talk –
internal dialogue with yourself; motivation
– an action towards a goal etc.
Sports Psychology at LLHS
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Last year pilot project in developing a
course in sports psychology
Went well and expanded
Now part of all sports concentration
Sports psychology coach follows all sports
concentrations on and off the field
Goal of Sports Psychology Coaches
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Teach athletes techniques that are commonly
used in sport psychology such as mental
imagery, relaxation, goal setting, building
confidence, learning to focus, create a positive
self-talk and regulating energy levels and
becoming more optimistic.
Through learning and practicing these
techniques, an athlete or person has the ability
to reach their potential, achieve peak
performance or what is called “flow”.
My Role within the team as a
Sports Psychology Coach
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Help the team perform better via the way you
think
Give periodic workshops such as this one to the
team
Specific workshops within units of the team
Help you one-on one in improving your mental
skills
Help you become more positive
My job is to help you create, recreate and
maintain peak performance
Get you working on your mental skills.
Therefore, expect you to write down whatever is
asked of you and or do any other work
One-on-One Consulting
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Open Door policy
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Meet me whenever is convenient for you
Office for now is room C317 (digital classroom)
Flag me down before, during or after practice, a
game, in the hallways and tell me that you want
to meet with me. Call the school or send me an
email [email protected]
You don’t even have to have a reason i.e. I just
want to improve but I don’t know how.
Fee … can charge up to $100 per hour… but
Free of charge to LLHS Panthers 
Confidence & Performance
Relationship between confidence and
performance?
Optimal performance Dependant variable?
Independant variable?
What will the graph
100
look like?
Performance
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What happens as
Overconfident! confidence increases?
0
50
100 What is this called?
Confidence Yesterday’s incident –
humbled you
Get it?
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Messing Up - Procedures
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1st step: Recognize it
2nd step: learn from it
3rd step: forget about it
Use the word next time… next time we
should do this; next time we should do
that. Talk it over on the bench; do not
assign blame on the field!
Focus
The ability to be in the present (not in the past, not
in the future but thinking right here, right now.
Focus on things that are in your control
Examples: Dealing with pressure, referees,
opponent, reacting to foul play, laying blame, fans
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In
Pressure
Reacting to foul play
Laying blame
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Out
Referees
Opponent
Fans
Every second that you think of things that are out
of your control, you are wasting valuable mental
strength!
Routines
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Extremely powerful mechanism related to
peak performance
Must high – five (or low five) when leaving
/ entering game with substitution.
Getting up when opponent scores a TD.
Homefun
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Get sports psychology binder – bring every time you see
me.
Pen
Positive attitude 
Handout that I gave you… asks you to list your personal
and team goals.
What does it mean to be a Panther?
Career highlights, highlights this year and your lowlight.
Mentally, your and the team’s strong point(s) weak
point(s) and suggestions
Complete this for the next time I see you
Positive Video
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Click here