The 4 Cornerstones of Championship Culture - Part 4 of 8- Creating Mentally Tough Athletes

Published: Mon, 02/27/17

'The best aren’t born that way. They work harder and practice more to master their craft.’ – Jon Gordon

The 4 Cornerstones of Championship Culture - WYC is excited to partner with Upward Sports to kick off 2017 with an exciting new way for your to raise your coaching game for you and your coaches!

3rd Cornerstone - Creating Mentally Tough Athletes

This week we learn from Pete Jacobson, founder of Win Smarter and long time wrestling coach in New York

Pete has his teams focus on 3 things to create a culture of mentally tough athletes:

1 - Focus on the process not the outcome

2 - Embrace failure as a necessary step towards success

3 - For the kids to embrace #'s 1 and 2 - you need to embrace and live these as their coach

Do these 3 steps and you will create fearless athletes who are not afraid of failure. Their mental approach will be to embrace and get excited for challenges instead of fearing them.

Next week we'll finish up the 3rd cornerstone with a great interview with Sports Psychology guru Sara Erdner.

We're thankful for our partnership with Upward Sports - see all the great stuff they are up to at upward.org. If you are not familiar with them:

Established in 1995, Upward Sports is the world’s largest Christian youth sports provider. Approximately 100,000 leaders and coaches deliver Upward Sports programming to half a million young athletes around the country.
Upward Sports promotes the discovery of Jesus through sports, by providing a fun, encouraging environment in which young athletes can learn technical skills and a love of the game. We use sports like basketball, volleyball, soccer and flag football to help young athletes develop mentally, athletically, spiritually, and socially. We are about the whole athlete—that’s our 360 Progression.

WYC 108 – Championship Culture Part 4 – Pete Jacobson talks Wrestling, Process over Outcome, and Embracing Failure

Pete Jacobson has been a varsity wrestling coach for 15 years. Coaching is a passion and a labor of love for him. It’s essentially been his “other” full time job for the last decade and half. Now with the many years of experience under his belt; dozens and dozens of books on coaching theory, sports psychology, performance nutrition, team building and motivation read and on his bookshelf; thousands of dollars worth of clinics, seminars and classes attended and PLENTY of trial and error, he is able to answer a lot more of these questions, so he has started a blog and resources called Win Smarter.

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Craig Haworth is the founder of Winning Youth Coaching, a site dedicated to helping coaches and parents make youth sports an awesome experience for the youth and the parents. He interviews coaches from around the world and posts them on his podcast, which currently has over 100 interviews and has been downloaded over 130,000 times. He writes a weekly note to coaches and parents. He is married to his high-school sweetheart and they share the blessing of 3 children and live in Franklin, TN. You can sign-up for his weekly note here, find him on twitter at @craighaworth1, or visit his website winningyouthcoaching.com.

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men"

- Frederick Douglass