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Coaches—you don’t have hours to waste, and when it comes to mental training not everything is worth your time. In this episode, I’ll break down the 3 things that aren’t worth it (like telling athletes to “shake it off” 🙄 or long motivational speeches) and the 3 simple strategies that are—tools that actually help athletes bounce back, reset, and perform in big games and pressure moments.

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. 🏐✨ Over 14 years of coaching, I’ve seen exactly what helps high school athletes handle nerves, mistakes, and adversity—and what doesn’t. These proven coaching strategies can transform your team’s mental game in minutes a day.

You’ll learn:
Why telling athletes to just “shake it off” wastes your time—and what to do instead
How to use the SnapBack routine (breath + reset word + signal) to recover in seconds 💨
Why visualization beats motivational speeches every time (and how to do it in 1 minute) 👁️‍🗨️
The power of a daily mindset routine (3-2-1 BRAVE) for confidence + focus before practice
How to integrate mental prep seamlessly so you’re not sacrificing physical training

🕓 Key Moments
00:00 Introduction to Mental Training
00:38 Why 'Shake It Off' Doesn't Work
01:40 The Snapback Routine
03:14 The Power of Visualization
04:57 Daily Mindset Routine
06:32 Conclusion and Next Steps

Bottom line: Your athletes won’t magically “be mentally tough.” They’ll rise—or fall—to the level of their mental preparation. Learn how to give them the tools to reset, stay confident, and hit peak performance when it matters most.

📢 Coaches—comment below: Which mental training tool do you want to try first with your team?👇

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College coaches are watching more than highlight reels. I'm breaking down the 5 mental skills that actually determine who gets an offer → coachfreetraining.com

In this episode, I'm sharing exactly what a college coach told me she's looking for when she watches recruits play.

It has nothing to do with stats. It has everything to do with how your athlete responds when things go sideways.

👋🏼 I'm Coach Bre, a 4-time state champion volleyball coach and Certified Mental Performance Coach. I've spent 14+ years coaching girl athletes and built The Elite Competitor to give coaches proven, plug-and-play mental training systems that actually work.

Here's what I cover:
✅ Why body language under pressure matters more than you think
✅ How athletes treat teammates and parents during competition
✅ The one thing most recruited athletes have that talented athletes don't
✅ Why "shake it off" leaves athletes with zero tools for the moments that matter
✅ The simple reset system that college coaches can actually see and evaluate

These aren't personality traits. They're trainable skills. And your athlete can start building them right now.

🕓 Key Moments:
00:00 Introduction
01:08 Why Mental Skills Matter in Recruiting
02:12 #1: Responding When Things Go Wrong
03:15 The Snapback Routine
05:15 #2: Body Language
06:39 #3: How You Treat Your Teammates
08:28 #4: How You Treat Your Parents
09:44 #5: Performing Under Pressure
12:29 Recap of All 5 Things
13:22 These Are Life Skills Too

💭 Coaches...comment below: What do your athletes struggle with most when college coaches are in the building?

📩 Work with Coach Bre: coachfreetraining.com

📌 Free Tools & Next Steps
👉 Plug & Play Elite Mental Game System for High School Coaches → https://elitecompetitor.com/plugplayemg
🎓 Free Mental Training Resource for Coaches: coachfreetraining.com
📲 Instagram: @coachhergame
🎙 Podcast: Coach Her Game Podcast
🔹 Follow us on TikTok→ @coachhergame
🔹 Championship Program Membership: champions.elitecompetitor.com
🔹 Player Impact Plan: https://elitecompetitor.kit.com/6639eaaf9f|

🔔 Subscribe for weekly mental training strategies built specifically for coaches of girl athletes.

P.S. Here's what the research shows:
⚡️ Mental skills are among the top factors coaches cite in recruiting decisions, alongside physical skills and coachability. (Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2019)
⚡️ Athletes who use pre-performance routines show significantly lower anxiety and higher confidence in competition. (Cotterill, S.T., International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2010)
⚡️ Girls drop out of sports at 6x the rate of boys between ages 14-18, with confidence and pressure cited as leading factors. (Women's Sports Foundation, Going for the Gold Report, 2020)

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 #collegerecruitment

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

💡 Coaches – tired of seeing your talented athletes crumble in rivalry games? Learn how to keep them confident and performing under pressure → https://coachfreetraining.com

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. Winning four state titles has its perks… and a lot of rivals now! Over 14 years of coaching high school athletes, I've learned that mental toughness wins games just as much as skill.

In this episode, I break down the 3 simple mental game hacks I use to help my team thrive in rivalry games, big games, and other high-pressure moments.

Including the importance of:
✅ Normalizing pressure games so athletes focus on what they can control
✅ Implementing a snapback routine for quick recovery from mistakes
✅ Using visualization to mentally prepare athletes for tough game scenarios
✅ Designing game-like practices that strengthen both physical and mental performance

Whether you’re preparing for rivalry matchups, playoff battles, or high-stakes competitions, these coaching strategies will help your athletes stay confident, calm, and consistent under pressure.

🕓 Key Moments
00:00 Introduction to Rivalry Games
00:41 Hack #1: Normalize the Game
02:13 Game-Like Practices
02:46 Hack #2: Failure Recovery System
04:55 Hack #3: Visualization Techniques
05:46 Conclusion and Next Steps

📢 Coaches – comment below: What’s your go-to strategy to keep your team from crumbling under pressure? 👇

📌 Build your team’s mental game confidently:
🔹 Grab our in-depth FREE training → https://coachfreetraining.com
🔹 Follow us on IG → @elitecompetitorcoach
🔹 Follow us on TikTok→ @coachhergame

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She looked confident. She was faking it. Saylor breaks down what was really happening inside. Get the free training → coachfreetraining.com

Your most put-together athlete might be carrying more than you know.

In this episode, I sit down with Saylor, our head athlete coach and a two-sport collegiate athlete who knew she wanted to do this work at 15 years old. She built a career around the mental game because she needed it herself.

We go deep on what burnout actually looks like from the inside, what happens when a coach dismisses an athlete's struggle, and what Saylor wishes someone had said to her when it got heavy.

✅ Why talented athletes fall apart under pressure
✅ What "faking confidence" actually costs your athletes
✅ The one thing that made Saylor stay when she wanted to quit
✅ What coaches and sports moms get wrong when athletes burn out
✅ Why "trust your skills" is the most powerful thing a parent ever said to her

👉 If you coach girl athletes, this one matters.

👋🏼 I'm Coach Bre, a 4-time state champion volleyball coach and Certified Mental Performance Coach. I've spent 14+ years coaching girl athletes and built The Elite Competitor to give coaches proven, plug-and-play mental training systems that actually work.

Meet Saylor: Saylor is a two-sport collegiate athlete (volleyball and track and field at Woodworth University), a certified Mental Performance Coach, and the head athlete coach at The Elite Competitor. She has spent years coaching girl athletes on confidence, pressure management, and resilience - and she's one of the rare coaches who has actually lived it from the inside.

🕓 Key Moments:
00:00 Introduction & Meet Coach Saylor
01:48 Saylor's Athletic Background
02:34 Pressure & Mental Struggles in Youth Sports
04:51 College Burnout & COVID's Impact
07:59 Seeking Help & Finding Support
10:57 The Origin of Saylor's Coaching Dream
13:29 Choosing to Stay Through Burnout
15:09 Life Skills Sports Built
22:23 Advice for Athletes & Sports Moms

💬 Coaches - drop a comment: do you think you can effectively spot athlete burnout?

📩 Work with Coach Bre: coachfreetraining.com

📌 Free Tools & Next Steps
👉 Plug & Play Elite Mental Game System for High School Coaches → https://elitecompetitor.com/plugplayemg
🎓 Free Mental Training Resource for Coaches: coachfreetraining.com
📲 Instagram: @coachhergame
🎙 Podcast: Coach Her Game Podcast
🔹 Follow us on TikTok→ @coachhergame
🔹 Championship Program Membership: champions.elitecompetitor.com
🔹 Player Impact Plan: https://elitecompetitor.kit.com/6639eaaf9f|

🔔 Subscribe for weekly mental training strategies built specifically for coaches of girl athletes.

P.S. Here's what the research shows:
⚡️ Girls quit sports at twice the rate of boys by age 14. (Women's Sports Foundation, 2019)
⚡️ Only 39% of college athletes reported receiving any formal mental skills training during their collegiate career. (Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 2018)
⚡️Athletes who experience burnout report significantly higher rates of depression and anxiety than their non-burnout peers. (Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, 2020)

Coach Her Game 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.

#coachinggirls #mentalperformance #girlsinsports #highschoolcoach #athletemindset

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

🚀 Wondering how to build mental toughness in your team from the very first day? Learn how to push your team and build resilience with challenges that actually work! 👉 Grab the free training here → https://coachfreetraining.com

I'm Coach Bre – a mental performance coach for girl athletes, Co-Founder of The Elite Competitor, and a long-time head volleyball coach with 4 state championships. After over 14 years of coaching high school athletes, I’ve seen how mental training can make or break a season. In this episode, I’m sharing how the Earn the Right system, a series of challenges that build mental toughness helps your athletes earn their success!

🎯 You’ll learn:
✅ How Earn the Right challenges your athletes mentally and physically
✅ How ball control drills to build mental toughness
✅ How to create a program where everything is earned, not given
✅ Why mental training should be part of your player evaluation process
✅ How to test player impact through mental reps and tough situations

Whether you're organizing tryouts, setting and communicating expectations, or helping your athletes face pressure, these tips are designed to improve mental performance and elevate your team's peak performance.

🕓 Key Moments
00:00 Introduction and Background
00:31 What is 'Earn the Right'?
01:13 Mental Toughness and Training Strategies
02:56 Detailed Breakdown of Challenges
04:43 Advanced Drills and Team Coordination
07:51 Conclusion and Additional Resources

📢 Coaches – comment below: What challenges do you use to test mental toughness in your athletes? 👇

📌 Build your team’s mental game confidently:
🔹 Grab our in-depth FREE training → https://coachfreetraining.com
🔹 Follow us on IG → @elitecompetitorcoach
🔹 Follow us on TikTok→ @coachhergame

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

Your athletes freeze under pressure because they've never been taught how to respond. Get the full system here 🧠 → coachfreetraining.com

In this episode, I'm breaking down the exact 3 things I changed after watching my team blow a 21-17 lead in the third set of a semifinal match. Telling them to be mentally tough wasn't working. Telling them to shake it off wasn't working. Here's what did.

You'll learn:
✅ Why "shake it off" doesn't teach athletes anything (and what to say instead)
✅ How to design practice so athletes are actually training for pressure
✅ The Snapback Routine - a failure recovery tool your team can use in 30 seconds
✅ Why coaches need their own pre-planned response for momentum shifts
✅ How 5% of practice time can change everything in a championship moment

👋🏼 I'm Coach Bre, a 4-time state champion volleyball coach and Certified Mental Performance Coach. I've spent 14+ years coaching girl athletes and built The Elite Competitor to give coaches proven, plug-and-play mental training systems that actually work.

🕓 Key Moments:
00:00 Introduction
00:19 Coach Bre's Story
00:59 The Semifinal Collapse
02:47 Why Telling Isn't Teaching
04:24 #1: Train for Pressure
06:05 #2: The Snapback Routine
10:02 #3: The Coach's Pre-Plan
14:30 Wrap-Up & Next Steps

💬 Drop a comment below - Which of these three are you trying first with your team?

📩 Work with Coach Bre: coachfreetraining.com

📌 Free Tools & Next Steps
👉 Plug & Play Elite Mental Game System for High School Coaches → https://elitecompetitor.com/plugplayemg
🎓 Free Mental Training Resource for Coaches: coachfreetraining.com
📲 Instagram: @coachhergame
🔹 Follow us on TikTok→ @coachhergame
🔹 Championship Program Membership: champions.elitecompetitor.com
🔹 Player Impact Plan: https://elitecompetitor.kit.com/6639eaaf9f|

🔔 Subscribe for weekly mental training strategies built specifically for coaches of girl athletes.

P.S. Here's what the research shows:
⚡️ Only 9% of high school coaches have received formal mental performance training, yet nearly all believe mental skills impact performance. (Association for Applied Sport Psychology, 2018)
⚡️ Athletes with pre-planned reset routines recover from errors significantly faster than those without a defined coping strategy. (Mesagno & Mullane-Grant, 2010)
⚡️Girls are 1.5x more likely than boys to drop out of sports by age 14, often citing confidence and fear of failure as primary reasons. (Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women, University of Minnesota, 2018)

Coach Her Game 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.

#coachinggirls #mentalperformance #girlsinsports #highschoolcoach #athletemindset

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

🔥Boost your athletes’ confidence and mental toughness with 3 simple visualization routines any coach can use → https://coachfreetraining.com

Coaches, are you looking for practical coaching strategies to help your athletes perform at their best—without adding more drills to practice? In this episode, I’ll walk you through 3 powerful visualization routines that reduce athlete anxiety, improve focus, and give your team the competitive edge. Backed by sports psychology, these routines are simple to introduce, highly effective, and proven to help high school athletes build mental resilience and peak performance.

🎯 You'll learn:
✔️ Why what you call visualization matters for player buy-in 🧠
✔️ A simple way to introduce short routines that athletes actually use 🙌
✔️ How elite competitors use mental reps to gain a performance edge 🏆

🎙 I’m Coach Bre – a mental performance coach for girl athletes, Co-Founder of The Elite Competitor, and a 4-time state champion head volleyball coach. I’ve spent 14 years coaching and now I’m here to help you strengthen your athletes’ mental game, build player connection, and reduce the stress that comes with tryouts, evaluations, and competition.

🕓 Key Moments
00:00 The Importance of Visualization
00:34 How to Introduce Visualization to Your Team
02:33 Starting Small with Visualization
03:01 Utilizing Resources for Visualization
04:29 Modeling Visualization as a Coach

📢 COACHES: Have you ever tried visualization with your athletes? If so, how did it go?

🔹 Grab our FREE training for coaches → https://coachfreetraining.com
🔹 Learn more about Plug & Play Elite Mental Game → https://elitecompetitor.com/plugplayemg
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#CoachingTips #TryoutTips #MentalToughness #FemaleAthletes #SportsPsychology #MentalPerformance #PlayerEvaluationCriteria #CoachingStrategies #PeakPerformance #EliteCompetitor #ReduceAnxietyForAthletes #PlayerConnection #CoachBre #CoachFreeTraining

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

Visualization is one of the simplest mental training tools out there and most coaches have no idea how to actually run it. Get the free training here that shows you how → https://coachfreetraining.com

In this episode, I'm breaking down three practical ways I use visualization with my team before every practice, before big games, and in the moments when I can feel the stress in the room.

No scripts to memorize. No extra prep. Just tools you can start using this week.

👋🏼 I'm Coach Bre, a 4-time state champion volleyball coach and Certified Mental Performance Coach. I've spent 14+ years coaching girl athletes and built The Elite Competitor to give coaches proven, plug-and-play mental training systems that actually work.

Here's what you'll learn:
✅ How the 321 BRAVE routine sets the mental tone before practice even starts
✅ Why pre-game visualization should focus on execution, not the outcome
✅ How to read the room and use visualization on the fly when your team needs it most

The science is clear: mental rehearsal fires the same neural pathways as physical performance. Which means every time your athlete visualizes a skill, she's literally training her brain.

Visualization = Confidence. Here's how to make it work.

🕓 Key Moments:
00:00 Introduction
01:37 Why Visualization Works (The Science)
02:39 Way #1: Visualization Before Practice
03:12 The 3-2-1 Brave Mindset Routine
04:46 Plug and Play Mental Training Program
05:54 Way #2: Visualization Before Games
06:58 Way #3: Situational Visualization
09:09 Wrap-Up & Resources

💬 Drop a comment below - Which of these three are you trying first with your team?

📩 Work with Coach Bre: coachfreetraining.com

📌 Free Tools & Next Steps
🎓 Free Mental Training Resource for Coaches: coachfreetraining.com
📲 Instagram: @coachhergame
🎙 Podcast: Coach Her Game Podcast
🔹 Follow us on TikTok→ @coachhergame
🔹 Championship Program Membership: champions.elitecompetitor.com
🔹 Player Impact Plan: https://elitecompetitor.kit.com/6639eaaf9f|

🔔 Subscribe for weekly mental training strategies built specifically for coaches of girl athletes.

P.S. Here's what the research shows:
⚡️ Mental rehearsal alone can increase muscle strength by up to 35% - without any physical movement. (Cleveland Clinic, 2014)
⚡️ Athletes who use mental imagery report significantly higher confidence and lower pre-competition anxiety than those who don't. (Munroe-Chandler & Hall, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 2004)
⚡️A meta-analysis of 133 studies found that mental imagery interventions significantly improve sport performance across skill levels and sport types. (Simonsmeier et al., Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2020)

Coach Her Game 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.

#coachinggirls #mentalperformance #girlsinsports #highschoolcoach #athletemindset

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