Mental health is not something you have or you don’t have. It’s something that’s earned, that’s worked towards. Just as we athletes work at our skills in sport, the same dedication, focus, and respect must be paid to mental health.
Read More
“The era of hard-talking, tyrannical managers (coaches) is over – both on and off the pitch. Football is really bad at talking. It does instructing and telling off but it doesn’t do talking and listening and empathy that well.”
Read More
A skill that England players use to manage pressure points is to create separation from the critical inner voice that so many of us deal with regularly. You know, the voice that is constantly telling you how unfit, not good enough, inexperienced, and destined to fail you are?
Read More
Team culture is daily action: what you do in practice, in games, in the locker room, off the field, with your family, with fans…
Read More
Sport provides a unique context in which female athletes can continue to challenge male dominated norms of power and dominance. As female athletes, we must lead the charge by championing a mindset that inspires wins beyond sport, and spread this mindset to our teammates, sisters, mothers and friends.
Read More