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***⏰ Key Timestamps***
00:00 Intro & Community Shoutout
01:44 Check Your Own Nerves First
02:46 Defining Her Goals for Tryouts
05:14 Practical Prep for Tryout Day
06:53 Mental Training Tools
09:52 Handling Disappointment & Resilience
11:06 Wrap-Up & Final Encouragement

👋🏼 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.

Tryout season brings out nerves in both of you, and most of what actually helps happens before tryout day even arrives. This episode walks through how to prepare her without adding pressure, what coaches are really watching for, and how to handle it if the outcome isn't what she hoped.

What You'll Learn:
✅ How to check your own tryout stress before it becomes hers - What to do in the weeks (not just the day) before tryouts
✅ The intangibles coaches are really scoring, beyond skill (hustle, resilience, teammate energy)
✅ Simple mental tools for the lead-up: breathwork, visualization, and the Snapback Routine
✅ How to handle disappointment after tryouts without raising a victim mindset

💬 Moms — comment below: What's your go-to thing to say to her in the days before tryouts?

P.S. A few stats worth knowing:
⚡️ Girls who quit sports are far more likely to have had parents who pressured them to play or compared them to other players (Aspen Institute / Project Play National Youth Athlete Survey, 2026)
⚡️ Self-talk interventions produce a measurable, moderate improvement in athletic performance, especially on newly-learned skills, exactly the conditions of a tryout (Hatzigeorgiadis et al., Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2011)
⚡️ Diaphragmatic breathing measurably lowers cortisol, the body's stress hormone, in athletes under physical stress (Martarelli et al., Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 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.

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