Episode Details

The off-season is where championships are built and most coaches are only training half of it. Grab Plug & Play Elite Mental Game for teams → https://elitecompetitor.com/plugplayemg

I spent two seasons watching talented teams crumble at match point. Not because of physical failures. Because we hadn't trained what actually determines performance when the pressure is real.

Mental game. Leadership. Culture. 

👋🏼 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.

In this episode, I'm sharing the three things I now do every summer to build a championship team before the season even starts:
👉 Build a Leadership Core: an application-based system that teaches athletes to lead instead of just naming them
👉 Run a Squad System: peer accountability that gets athletes to workouts and shows you who's actually leading in real time
👉 Train mental skills now: because you cannot pull out a Snapback Routine in a championship moment if you've never practiced it

These are the exact systems that helped us come back from championship point down to win our first state title.

If you coach girl athletes and you're serious about what next season looks like, this one is for you.

What You'll Learn:
✅ Why physical conditioning alone is not enough to win when pressure hits
✅ How to build a Leadership Corps that develops real leaders before the season starts
✅ The Squad System for peer accountability and off-season workout attendance
✅ How to teach athletes mental skills in summer so they can access them in October
✅ The exact failure recovery tool that came through in a championship moment

🕓 Key Moments:
00:00 Introduction & Coach Bre's Story
00:45 Why Physical Training Alone Isn't Enough
03:06 Thing #1: The Leadership Core
05:55 Thing #2: The Squad System
07:37 The Three Leadership Meetings
08:37 Thing #3: Mental Training in the Off-Season
13:24 Plug & Play Mental Game Curriculum

💬 Coaches - comment below: What's the one off-season thing you keep meaning to build but haven't made into a real system yet?

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📌 Free Tools & Next Steps
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P.S. Here's what the research shows:  
⚡️ When athletes mentally rehearse a skill in vivid detail, the neural pathways fire the same way as during physical practice. (Cleveland Clinic)
⚡️ Athletes who reframed pre-competition anxiety as excitement showed measurably higher performance than those who tried to calm down. (Wood Brooks, A., Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2014)
⚡️Only 9% of high school coaches report receiving formal training in sport psychology or mental performance. (Journal of Athletic Training, 2021)

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.  

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