Sports psychologist says resiliency of athletes will allow them to get through COVID-19 shutdown


Sports psychologist says resiliency of athletes will allow them to get through COVID-19 shutdown


.....Fear and anxiety are in ample supply right now in all facets of society as everyone wonders whether normalcy will ever return to their lives.

Athletes, whether they’re determined to excel in high school to get to college or parlay their college careers to reach the pros, may feel an increased sense of anxiety because they’re losing time and skills could be eroding. They may see this time off as the window slowing closing on their careers.

However, Spencer believes, many of those same athletes have plenty of resiliency in their DNA and will use that to regroup once the whistle blows.

“I’m just an athlete from P’burg and a pretty simple guy,” Spencer said. “I like to break things down as simply as I can without any psychobabble. Anxiety is fear of the unknown and athletes have anxiety right now because they don’t know if they’re going to have a fall season. Is all the training going to pay off for me?”.....

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Bethany`s Notes: I believe athletes will come back stronger myself. It might be a while but for the first time EVERYONE had to deal with the loss of sport. I think there will be a new appreciation for sports and perhaps we will understand how to keep a better balance between process and outcome, wins/losses, and general enjoyment of the events.

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