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As a college athlete, you are going to have to develop your identity with a strong foundation in attributes that will help you succeed.  This will help you become attracted to people and situations that are conducive to your success in college and beyond. Discovering your identity helps you monitor the people you choose to associate with.  If you have a solid foundation of who you are, you are going to gravitate toward people who add value to you and support your goals. I knew I should have stayed on campus, but I left anyway.  I sat in my car…

As a college athlete, you have some degree of self-confidence.  That is, you trust that you have the abilities and qualities required to perform.  How much self-confidence you have determines how great you will become.  Therefore, it is important for you to find a way to build and maintain your self-confidence in order to be competitive in college and beyond.  But, first you have to make sure that your confidence stems from the right place. “No you can’t play!  Girls don’t play basketball!” When I wanted to play on my first basketball team in middle school, those were the words…

(Photo by http://www.pexels.com) By Geraline L. Handsome On the way to discovering your identity, you will be associated with many others in college that are also trying to find theirs.  Among these are your fellow teammates.  They are trying to develop the personal attributes they need to be successful in college and beyond, just as you are.  Therefore, it is important that you not hinder their process of finding their identity. Have you ever heard this?  “You’re not the boss of me!  You don’t tell me what to do!” Did it come from a sibling or someone else? Have you ever…

(Photo credit:  http://www.pexel.com) You are in your college years and this is the time of your life where you are trying to discover who you really are. Part of discovering your identity is finding out what personal attributes you need to develop that will make you the best you in college and beyond, and getting rid of those that would hinder you. Image your final game in college. The horn sounds ending the last second of the last quarter of your college career. Now, your teammates and coaches no longer have to, or want to, talk to you. Feel the emotional…