Let's give credit where credit is due! Please nominate any player who "Did his job" on the field extremely well in a single game this week.
This award will go out to the varsity baseball or softball player who demonstrates the best mental skills during single or multiple game performances this week. This means that he (or she) did a great job of playing up to his potential and giving his team the best chance he could to win. Please reply with your nominations on here or through my website with details about the outstanding individual performances, stating the player's name, his school (with City and State), the final score of the game, and why this performance was an outstanding display of his talent. The only difference between this and a typical player-of-the-week award is that the least talented player on the field should, in theory, have an equal chance to win this award as the most talented player.
I will select the winner every Monday, and will send that player, via his coach at school, a certificate of achievement, a free copy of one of the preview booklets (Approach, Focus, or Attitude) of my book, Finding Your Peak Performance with Mental Skills Training, a coupon for this book at cost ($10), and a framed poem titled "Do You Want to Be a Champion." This poem is posted on my website, CoachTraub.com, and is extremely popular with players I share it with. This award is UIL compliant. I will also include a note explaining how he won (who nominated him).
This award will not be given out solely on stats, although consideration will certainly be given to athletes who were "in the zone," as indicated by exceptional statistics. I am also looking for the athlete who does the "little things" right, displays leadership, and/or overcomes adversity -- whether from self, opponents, umpires, teammates, fans, bad luck, or whatever.
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