When momentum shifts and your girls get rattled, what happens next is all on you. Here are three game-changing drills to help your team thrive under pressure! Grab more strategies → https://coachfreetraining.com

Coaches, building mental toughness isn’t a one-time thing—it's something you need to work on every day, especially in practice. In this video, I’m sharing three effective drills that will help your athletes develop focus, resilience, and the drive to compete at their highest level. These drills are perfect for high school and middle school athletes who need that extra edge.

🎯 Learn:
✔️ How to optimize pre-practice to get athletes in the right mindset
✔️ The power of a competitive cauldron system to foster mental toughness
✔️ Why you should create pressure situations in practice to simulate game stress
✔️ The mental training tools I use with my team to build focus and performance

🎙 I'm Coach Bre mental performance coach for girl athletes, co-founder of The Elite Competitor, and four-time state championship-winning volleyball coach. I’ve made every coaching mistake in the book when it comes to pressure, and I’ve learned how to turn those into powerful, practical tools any coach can use to build mentally tough teams.

In this video, I also give a shoutout to Coach Tom, who successfully implemented our Plug & Play Elite Mental Game with his volleyball team, seeing amazing results!

🕓 Key Moments
00:00 Introduction to Mental Toughness
00:50 Optimizing Pre-Practice Time
04:33 Daily Mindset Routine
07:36 Implementing the Competitive Cauldron
13:25 Creating Pressure Situations
16:23 Mindset Mondays: Weekly Mental Training
18:34 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

📢 COACHES – What’s one pressure situation your team struggles with most? Let’s help each other grow in the comments. 👇

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Your athlete just made a mistake. Her body language shifts. If she doesn’t reset now, the game’s gone. Here’s how you coach the comeback! Learn the reset system here → https://coachfreetraining.com

In this video, I’m sharing the 3 core routines I teach athletes so they can recover from failure, handle pressure, and silence negative self-talk in real-time.

🎯 Learn:

• The “Snapback Routine” that gets athletes back in the moment
• How to rewire self-talk (instead of spiraling)
• The 3-2-1 Brave pre-practice mental reset

🎙 I'm Coach Bre, mental performance coach, co-founder of The Elite Competitor, and four-time state championship volleyball coach. These are the tools that transformed my program—and they’re simple enough for every coach to use.

🕓 Key Moments
00:00 Introduction to Mental Toughness
00:41 Assessing Mistake Recovery
03:41 Building a Snapback Routine
05:59 Mastering Self-Talk
11:22 Handling Pressure Situations
14:37 Conclusion and Resources

📌 Ready to strengthen your team’s mental game?
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🔥 Volleyball is as much a mental battle as it is a physical game—especially when the pressure’s on. Want your team to handle adversity, stay resilient, and turn momentum around fast? → https://coachfreetraining.com

🌀 When one bad pass spirals, the mental side can make or break your season. Most coaches try to pump their athletes up, but what actually works is having a repeatable system for building mental toughness—without having to become a sports psychologist. In this episode, I’m sharing the three toughest mental hurdles teams face and the exact strategies I use so your players can bounce back, compete under pressure, and win more matches.

👋 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. I’ve taken over two different high school programs, and I’ve learned (sometimes the hard way) what to do—and what NOT to do—when you're the new coach on campus.

✅ Inside this episode:

• The Thought Wheel: How thoughts lead to feelings, actions, and results on the court
• Self-Talk & Affirmations: How to help players reset and choose better thoughts after mistakes
• Momentum & Pressure: Training routines and pregame systems to handle momentum swings and hype
• Serve Receive Mental Training: Snapback routines, visualization, and handling the gauntlet
• How to plug in mental skills training without adding more to your coaching plate

🎯 Don’t just train skills—build athletes who are mentally ready for anything. Because the right mindset wins championships.

🕓 Key Moments

00:00 Introduction: Why volleyball is a such a mental game

02:59 The Spiral: Thought Wheel, Self-Talk, Affirmations

08:18 Handling Momentum: Swings & Pressure Routines

10:28 Pregame: Custom Routines

12:48 Serve Receive: Snapback, Visualization, Mental Reps

15:45 Conclusion: Systems & tools for coaches

👇 Coaches—what's one mindset shift or tool that's made the biggest impact for your team? Share below!

📌 Want to learn more tips on how to take your team’s game to the next level?

🔹 Grab our FREE training for coaches → https://coachfreetraining.com

🔹 Follow us on IG → @elitecompetitorcoach

🔹 Check out our plug & play elite mental game info → https://elitecompetitor.com/plugplayemg

🎥 More videos here → https://www.youtube.com/@CoachHerGame

Head to coachfreetraining.com to grab our free training for coaches to quickly level-up your team's mental game!