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⏰ Key Timestamps:
00:00 Intro: Handling Pre-Game Nerves
00:50 Tip 1: The Critic in the Stands
01:58 Tip 2: Find Your Hype Number
02:47 Pregame Visualization Routines
04:31 Tip 3: The Highlight Reel
05:28 More Free Coaching Resources
06:02 Reframing Nerves as Excitement

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

You already know when a mistake wrecks the rest of the game for one of your athletes. This episode breaks down three tools I use with my own team to help players manage nerves before they turn into mistakes. None of them require extra practice time or a psychology degree, just a few minutes before warmups.

What You'll Learn:
✅ How to help your athletes name and distance the negative "critic" voice that shows up before big moments-
✅ A simple 1-10 scale to help each player identify whether she needs to calm down or get hyped up before competing
✅ Specific ways to help athletes reach their ideal pre-game state, from breathing to visualization to warmup intensity
✅ A pre-game exercise that stops the spiral of catastrophic thinking before it starts
✅ Why turning nerves into excitement works better than trying to make them disappear

💬 Coaches — comment below: What do you say to a player who's spiraling with nerves right before a big moment?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:
👉Self-talk interventions produce a moderate, statistically significant improvement in sport task performance (Hatzigeorgiadis et al., Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2011)
👉High-level athletes' pre-competition anxiety scores dropped significantly after a short attentional-training intervention (Zhao et al., Frontiers in Psychology, 2025)
👉A 10-session psychological skills and mindfulness intervention produced medium-to-large improvements in athletes' mental toughness and competitive anxiety (Vella-Fondacaro & Romano-Smith, Sports, 2023)

The Coach Her Game YouTube channel is hosted by The Elite Competitor and is dedicated to helping coaches of girl athletes strengthen their mental game and team culture in order to develop a competitive edge.

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