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⏰ Key Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Vision Board & Front Cover
01:38 Notebook Organization
01:52 Sport IQ & Match Prep
03:06 The Mental Game: 3-2-1 BRAVE
05:04 The BRAVE Visualization Method

👋🏼 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.

For the past six years, I've used player notebooks with my team to build focus, consistency, and ownership over the season. This episode walks through every section, including the daily mental game routine that lives inside it.

You'll see exactly how the notebook is organized, from the season calendar and playbook notes to the pre-game prep and post-game reflection pages. Most importantly, you'll see the 3-2-1 BRAVE routine my players run through before every practice.

What You'll Learn:
✅ How to structure a player notebook coaches and athletes actually use all season
✅ The exact 3-2-1 BRAVE routine my team runs through before every practice
✅ How the season-opening vision board workshop ties into daily mental training
✅ A simple way to build ownership and consistency without adding extra practice time
✅ How to use written affirmations and visualization to shift a negative mindset

💬 Coaches — comment below: which part of the 3-2-1 BRAVE routine would help your team most right now, the affirmations, the journaling, or the visualization?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:
👉A 2025 study of 512 athletes found a 4-week mental skills program built on goal-setting, visualization, mindfulness, and team reflection produced large gains in self-confidence and large drops in competitive anxiety. (Alecu & Onea, Frontiers in Psychology, 2025)
👉A meta-analysis of visualization research found a medium, statistically significant positive effect on athletic performance. (Simonsmeier et al., International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2020)
👉A gratitude study with 51 NCAA Division I athletes found meaningful increases in well-being and sport satisfaction, and decreases in burnout, four weeks after a single gratitude workshop. (Steinfeldt et al., Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 2019)

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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Nerves were never the problem. Not having a plan for them is. Learn more here, coach → https://coachfreetraining.com

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FREE:
🎓 Mental Game Training for Coaches: https://coachfreetraining.com
📬 Join our weekly Varsity Squad newsletter: https://coachhergame.com/yt-varsity-squad
🔹 Player Impact Plan Template: https://coachhergame.com/impact
🎙 Podcast: Coach Her Game Podcast

OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS:
👉 Grab the Plug & Play Elite Mental Game for Teams → https://elitecompetitor.com/plugplayemg
🔹 Championship Program Mentorship: https://champions.elitecompetitor.com

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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.

#mentalperformance #coachinggirls #youthathletics #pregameprep

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Visualization only sticks if it fits in practice, not adds to it. Want the exact visualization scripts I use with my team? All 15 are inside Plug & Play. The free training walks you through it → https://coachfreetraining.com

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|📬 Join our weekly Varsity Squad newsletter: https://coachhergame.com/yt-varsity-squad
🔹 Player Impact Plan Template: https://coachhergame.com/impact
🎙 Podcast: Coach Her Game Podcast

OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS:
👉 Grab the Plug & Play Elite Mental Game for Teams → https://elitecompetitor.com/plugplayemg
🔹 Championship Program Mentorship: https://champions.elitecompetitor.com

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 long-time head volleyball coach and 4-time state champion.

In this episode, I break down the exact way I introduce visualization to my team without the awkward energy that killed it the first time I tried it. I share what I call it, how long we spend on it, and why the science behind it makes it worth the two minutes.

This isn't guided meditation or a big production. It's a small habit that gives your team free reps without adding a single thing to your practice plan.

What You'll Learn:
✅ Why calling it "mental reps" instead of meditation gets buy-in fast
✅ A simple way to start visualization in one to two minutes before practice
✅ How your energy as a coach determines whether your team takes it seriously
✅ Where to find 15 ready-made visualization scripts and audio for your team
✅ Why the science behind visualization means it works like free reps, minus the wear and tear

💬 Coaches — comment below: What's one mental training tool you've been nervous to try with your team?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:
⚡️Imagery training produces a medium-sized performance boost across motor and mental outcomes in athletes (Simonsmeier et al., International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2020)
⚡️A 2025 meta-analysis of 3,593 athletes found roughly 10 minutes, 3 times a week, over 100 days produced the strongest results, proof that consistency beats duration (Behavioral Sciences, 2025)
⚡️Coaches who get trained on a new program themselves see adoption rates nearly double those who don't (Barden et al., International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021)

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.

#mentalperformance #coachinggirls #youthathletics #volleyballcoach #sports visualization #visualization for athletes #mental reps #mental training for athletes #mental toughness coaching

Head to coachfreetraining.com to grab our free training for coaches to quickly level-up your team's mental game!