MISC> ARTICLES: The Role of the Sport Psychologist in the News

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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:33:56 -0500
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From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 10:31:26 -0400 (EDT)

Here are some articles that demonstrate the value of the kind of mental
effort in sports that improves performance and translates into other areas
of ones life and into ones academic and professional activities.

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Mind Games
Athletes and teams are turning to sports psychologists to help them
develop the tools to better cope with the pressures of athletic
competition.
By Joshua Tehee
STAFF WRITER
04/03/03 06:50:10
<http://www.fresnoneighbors.com/sports/story/6490118p-7434247c.html>

Clinton Kershaw is under pressure. The 16-year-old sophomore at Hallmark
Charter School in Sanger is preparing for the 2003 World Junior Fencing
Championships in Italy this month.

Vladimir Ostatmigrosh, left, teaches Clinton Kershaw, 16, at Sierra
Fencing Center. Another way Kershaw trains for competition is through
sessions with a sports psychologist.

<snip>

"I realized the gravity of where this person was at," said Wendy Kershaw,
Clinton's mother and owner of Sierra Fencing in northwest Fresno. "I was
starting to be unable to deal with his stresses," she said.

So Wendy Kershaw turned to a sports psychologist.

Since November, Clinton has been working with Wade Gilbert, a sports
psychologist and director of the graduate specialization in sports
psychology within the kinesiology department at California State
University, Fresno.

Gilbert has helped Kershaw develop tools to better cope with the pressures
athletic competition creates in his life. Kershaw has learned to
prioritize, to manage his time and the things he allows himself to worry
about.

<snip>

According to the Web site for the American Psychology Association Division
47 (the division of exercise and sports psychology) "sport psychologists
are interested in two main areas: helping athletes use psychological
principles to achieve optimal mental health and to improve performance --
performance enhancement; and understanding how participation in sport,
exercise and physical activity affects an individual's psychological
development, health and well-being throughout the life span."

In practice, most sports psychologists work in the education or sports
training fields and do consulting with athletes and teams (performance
enhancement) on the side.

In a study conducted at the University of Memphis, those working in the
field spent only 10 percent of their time consulting with athletes and
teams. Most of their time was spent teaching, consulting with non-athletes
or coaching.

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ARTICLE: Sports Psychologist Can Be a Rugby Job

Rugby
April 05, 2003
Robinson has success in mind
By Christopher Irvine
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,377-635283,00.html>

PERHAPS a resemblance to Uri Geller made some of the Leeds Rhinos players
suspicious of Darren Robinson. Sports psychologists are busy working
within football and with individual athletes, but rugby, of either code,
has tended to shy away from empowering the mind in the adrenalin rush of
physical contact.

Robinson, whose background is in football, as a trainee at Hull City and
later on the Derby County coaching staff, is not unaware of the scepticism
and much, he says, has been generated by unsuitable psychologists, whose
wacky techniques would put many players off.

There are no mind-bending tricks with Robinson, the first qualified sports
psychologist to work in rugby league. From Leedss position at the top of
the Tetleys Super League, with the last surviving 100 per cent record, it
could be argued that their newest backroom recruit is making a difference,
but two games in eight days against St Helens may offer a definite answer.

Building a winning mentality is Robinsons priority, but St Helens loom as
a huge psychological barrier, with tonights league game at Knowsley Road
followed by next Saturdays Powergen Challenge Cup semi-final. Last year,
Saints inflicted three straight league defeats on Leeds and they have
beaten them in two successive cup semi-finals.

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Sarawak Hope Proposed Academy Will Produce Future Golf Champions
Thursday, April 03, 2003
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=
/2003/4/3/sports/acam&sec=sports>


KUCHING: The proposed Sarawak Junior Golf Foundation and Academy is
expected to build a nucleus of activities for young golfers in efforts to
create future champions, said Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud.

He said that the initiative taken by the private sector to boost public
interest in various sports, like golf, was a good sign for the growth of
Sarawak as well as the country.

Golf is not a poor mans game, neither are the facilities that of a poor
mans amenities but with the private sectors initiative and state
governments support, the proposed project will be ready within three
years, he said after receiving a courtesy call by the organising committee
for the Sarawak World Masters Golf Championships at his office in Petra
Jaya here yesterday.

The proposal, which involves construction of an integrated training centre
on a 10.52-ha site in Petra Jaya, would be submitted to the Social
Development and Urbanisation Ministry for approval soon.

<snip>

As a model golfing academy for the region, it would train potential and
talented golfers on mental training and course management, skills,
strategy and tactics as well as sports psychology, he said.

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Sports Feature: Valley Basketballers Learn Mental Aspect of Sports
By: John Steady, Staff Correspondent March 24, 2003
Sports Psychologist Mallimson Works With Boys
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=
7483692&BRD=1634&PAG=461&dept_id=31890&rfi=6>

Almost every athlete has experienced a slump. The shots just won't fall or
the swing just isn't normal. It could be the most frustrating part of
sports.

Conventional wisdom suggests that more shots or more swings are the
solution. Dr. Robert Mallimson of Deep River has other ideas.

Mallimson is a clinical psychologist who specializes in sports psychology.
He studies the mental aspect of sports and believes that most athletes
should spend just as much time working on the mental aspect as the
physical.

"In sports everyone focuses on the physical aspect," Mallimson said. "They
concentrate on nutrition, weight lifting and getting in shape. Sports
psychology focuses on the mental piece, dealing with pressure,
communication, leadership and getting out of slumps."

Mallimson has been a sports fan all of his life. He played three sports in
high school and played in college. Coaching and coaching philosophies have
always intrigued him.

He graduated from Temple University with a Doctorate in Clinical
Psychology and started a practice. Once it was established, he took his
passion for sports and started specializing.

"Most people are not aware how important the mental part is," Mallimson
said. "You can get to a certain level by working on the physical aspect of
the game, but you can create certain advantages by having a mental edge in
sports."

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The full articles may be read at the URLs above.


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