Trust

Since trust is such a basic segment of pinnacle execution, mentors and competitors should persistently hope to manufacture and look after it. Whether it's an individual competitor endeavoring to perform to his or her potential or a group cooperating to accomplish a shared objective, trust is the premise of pinnacle execution. Singular competitors must figure out how to believe in themselves and their gifts, particularly in dire circumstances, with the goal that they can perform to their potential. Group trust is the enthusiastic paste that ties colleagues together to enhance performance. Without having trust in partners and mentors, there is certain to be strife, dispute, coteries and hurt sentiments. Since trust is such a basic segment of pinnacle execution, mentors and competitors should consistently hope to construct and look after it. On an individual level, trust happens when a competitor enables their body to normally respond to the circumstance without intentionally endeavoring to deliberately control their developments. Their psyches are moderately certain and they feel associated with the action. They put themselves on "programmed pilot" and encounter a feeling of beat, synchronicity and stream. They basically enable their body to do what it is prepared to do. For instance, a hitter in baseball encounters trust when he sees the ball early and plainly from the pitcher's discharge point and lets his hands normally respond to the pitch as opposed to over-analyzing and speculating. A basketball player encounters trust when he gets and shoots in a rythym as opposed to stressing over his frame, a past miss, or if his mentor or colleagues think he is taking a terrible shot. Helping your competitors believe in themselves, their gifts and their arrangement is the way to progress. With trust, competitors unquestionably and forcefully hope to make plays that assistance your group be effective. Without trust, competitors overthink themselves into committing errors and missing open doors.

The Importance of Academics

Most parents and athletes don't comprehend the significance of academics to a school mentor. To start with, great athletes frequently meet all requirements for scholastic grants and in-state educational cost, possibly sparing the athletic office grant cash. This permits mentors in the equivalency games to possibly spread the athletic grant cash out finished more players by filling in the money related holes with scholastic grants. Most instructing staffs are personally comfortable with the scholastic grants that may be accessible for qualified understudy competitors. Let's be honest, cash is cash and if part of your grant originates from your scholastic accomplishments you ought to be pleased. Second, a great GPA and SAT/ACT score shows to mentors that a student athlete will in all likelihood accomplish the base school GPA expected to keep up athletic qualification. It is additionally a sign that the athlete will in all probability have the capacity to progress into school life. On the off chance that a competitor is worried about evaluations, he/she may not perform to the best of their capacities. Third, grades and test scores are an indication of a player's hard working attitude and accomplishment for all aspects of their lives. Competitors who set forth the exertion in the classroom by and large set forth a similar sort of exertion by and by and in diversions. Here is a recipe many mentors have confidence in: Good student + good athlete = smart choice for a potential roster spot. At long last, the scholastic profile has turned into a vital factor in enrolling. Confirmations and organization workplaces are putting more weight on athletic divisions to select competitors that succeed once they get into school instead of reaching the bare minimum.

Dealing With Injury

1. Acknowledge Responsibility for Your Injury

It is not necessarily the case that the injury is your blame. This means your mentality needs to change. You have to acknowledge that now you have an injury and you are the only one that can completely decide your result. By assuming liability for your recuperation procedure, you will locate a more noteworthy feeling of control and will rapidly advance in recuperation, instead of driving yourself to perform at your pre-injury level.

2. Keep up a Positive Attitude

To recuperate rapidly you should be focused on conquering your injury by appearing for your medications, and tuning in and doing what your specialist as well as athletic mentor suggest. You likewise need to screen your self-talk what you are considering and saying to yourself with respect to the damage and the recovery procedure. Your self-talk is critical. To get the most out of your every day recovery, you have to buckle down and keep up an inspirational demeanor. Stay concentrated on what you have to do, not what you are passing up a major opportunity for.


3. Set Appropriate Goals

Because you are harmed doesn't mean you quit arranging or defining objectives. Instead of viewing the damage as an liability, make it another preparation challenge. Your objectives will now concentrate on recuperation instead of a downfall. This will help keep you inspired. By checking your objectives you will likewise have the capacity to see little changes in the recovery of your damage. You will feel more certain that you are showing signs of improvement and progressing. Make sure to work intimately with your advisor or specialist. They can enable you to set sensible objectives that are in accordance with each phase of your recovery. Most competitors tend to endeavor to accelerate the recuperation by doing too much too early. Accept that you are injured and know your cutoff points.

Slumping

We see it consistently. A player begins the season super-hot. Pitchers are unhittable, and hitters can't appear to make contact. They barrel through for quite a long time and after that—descend. Experts scratch their heads, managers knock them down the lineup, water coolers are tossed over and in some cases that player winds up riding the pine. Far more terrible, some recover the feared call down to the minors. The mindset of a slump resembles the Five Stages of Grief. I know, it sounds absurd, yet recollect any slump you've been in and check whether any of these sentiments ring a ringer:

Disavowal – "Nah, going 0-12 at the plate the last 3 games happens. Simply misfortune." Hello, possibly it was misfortune. Perhaps the sun was in your eyes. Hell, perhaps there was an opening in the bat. Truly, you're as of now inside your own head and you don't know it. The speedier you wake up and understand that you may be a headcase at the plate, the better.

Outrage –   "WHY CAN'T I GET A !@#$% HIT!?" Great observation, however hollering, and tossing your helmet over the bench surely isn't the solution. I've never observed somebody go to the plate raging distraughtly and smack one over the wall. Calmly inhale, unwind, and recollect that this game should be fun.

Dealing – "Dear Baseball Gods: If you convey the ball into my bat and into the outfield for a hit, I will sacrifice a sack of sunflower seeds on the dugout steps." Spare the seeds, nobody can help you however you.

Discouragement – "I'll never work out of this. What's the point?" This is maybe the most exceedingly bad stage and the minute where baseball doesn't appear fun any longer. However, the sound individual in you should realize that baseball is enjoyable. Of course, you may not pulverize line drives and get on, yet despite everything you're putting in light of that uniform, going through the grass and earth and hanging out with your companions. What's discouraging about that?

Acknowledgment –, "Guess what? This happens, so I should ride it out." Congrats. This is the hardest thing to genuinely figure it out. A few players may state this to themselves ahead of schedule in the slump to attempt to deceive themselves, however you need to genuinely feel it with the goal for it to work. You can work your way through these phases in a matter of a couple of games or it can take a large portion of a season.

The Importance of Teamwork

Teamwork is invaluable in sports because achieving team success or getting a win almost always requires the complete effort of every team member. Even sports that are considered individual sports often form teams to benefit from success from the other players for the individual athletes. One or two players on any given team may dominate some team sports like Lebron James in basketball, or Aaron Rodgers in Football but in many team sports, every athlete’s performance matters and they must play well enough in order to win.

In a sport such as baseball, each player relies on his teammates to play well because not all players can directly influence the outcome of the game. Football and soccer are similar in these respects, as a defensive player strives to keep the other team from scoring, but must rely on the offensive players to do the scoring for their team. Sports such as swimming or gymnastics rely on the team’s overall score, but each participant is active at different times. Tennis is usually a single-player sport, but in doubles matches, two players form a team and feed and rely on each other to make plays and do their job.

In general, the fewer players that are active at a time, the more each player is responsible for the outcome. Accordingly, a single player can dominate team sports such as basketball, which uses only five players at a time and usually only has about 9 or 10 players who actually contribute in a game. By contrast, football teams feature 11 players at a time, and 22 total. This is why championships in football are much more considered a team success. Take Basketball for an example, no one talks about how a team has a championship, but rather how a singular player has a championship.

My Strengths and Weaknesses

I would have to say that identifying your strengths and weaknesses is one of the most important things that you need to be able to do as a college athlete in order to succeed. Because if you don’t know what to work on then you will never improve and become better. But the catch is that it is really easy to identify them, but then you have to be able to work on them and morph everything into a strength which is really really hard to do. I myself really struggle sometimes with being able to balance both and not let one or the other outweigh the other. Sometimes it’s just impossible to fix a weakness so you have to try to minimize it as best as you can which is what I usually do given my weaknesses.

Strengths: I find that I am usually pretty good at sticking to the fundamentals of baseball and not really stray from the basic things about hitting, fielding, running, etc. Cause usually if you forget to do something simple it will mess up a lot of other things so all your motions and things you’ve learned will go away and you will struggle very easily. When this happens, it can be really hard to get back in your groove for a long time.

Weaknesses: Without a doubt my biggest weakness is getting angry at myself when bad things happen whether it be in baseball or in life. Even when it’s really simple things like dropping a ball or swinging and missing. But better yet even when I do good things to me it’s like “Oh ok well I’m supposed to be doing that anyways so why should I even be excited about it?” So lately I’ve been really trying to enjoy when I do good things when I'm playing and not try to get as angry about negative things.

Professionals I Look Up To

    Every athlete that is dedicated and cares about their sport and their success looks up to a professional. Baseball is no different and has a wide array of players to idolize and model skills after. For many it is just a really good player that everyone likes and knows like Mike Trout, Clayton Kershaw, Adrian Beltre, etc. For me, I like to focus on players that are less known for their production and instead look closely at players' mechanics and what special things about them make them a professional. Also, I look at players that I play the same position as. In this case, I am a catcher so I look up to people who play the same position as me.

    My favorite player that I model my game after the most is Jonathan Lucroy, who played for my two favorite teams, the Brewers and Rangers. The reason that I like him as a player is because he is known for his great defense but is also one of the best hitting catchers in the game, and today it is very hard to find a catcher that excels at both. Specifically, he is really good at throwing out base stealers, and owns one of the best percentages in that category. To add to that, last season Lucroy was among the league leading catchers in framing (the act of making a ball appear as a strike to the umpire). These two skills together form a very good and serviceable player that can be utilized in every teams' system.

    Lucroy's hitting is also one of the best attributes about him that makes him a valuable commodity. Last season he was among the league's best catchers in Batting Average (the average performance of a batter, expressed as a ratio of a batter's safe hits per official times at bat). This is one of the most important stats to determine how dependable a player can be. He also doesn't really hit for power like me, so instead he hits balls hard instead of far. This can lead to more base hits and doubles. Which Lucroy owns the MLB record for most doubles hit in a single season by a catcher.