In-form Port Vale midfielder Ben Waine says talking to a sports psychologist helped him believe his recall to the team would ...

Reasons We Love Rooting for Our Favorite Teams Sports have a unique ability to bring people together, creating a sense of ...

Editor’s Note: This story is a part of Peak, The Athletic’s new desk covering leadership, personal development and success through the lens of sports. Peak aims to connect readers to ideas they can ...

Over the years, an increasing number of students have asked me about becoming a sports psychologist. Students understand that our society loves sports, and (for better or worse) this love of sports ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. With the World Series in full swing, the peak performance of elite athletes on the biggest stage warrants discussion. A ...

Sport psychology is a dynamic and rewarding field that bridges the gap between psychology and athletics. It focuses on helping athletes, teams, and organizations optimize performance, enhance mental ...

The Roadrunners’ path to the Division II national championship began on a mountaintop, offering up their fears to the fire.

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s ...

Nationally-renowned sport psychologist Dr. Joel Fish is a Lower Merion High School graduate and an inductee into the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. As director of The Center For Sport ...

That doesn’t mean that a little sports psychology can’t benefit the average runner, though. Elites have run scores of races, so their mental skills are likely to be as honed as their physical ones, ...

If there has been one constant across professional sports in recent years, it has been the investment of organizations for their athletes to improve their mental health. The Buffalo Bills are just ...

In a brief but powerful moment, PGA Tour pro Nicolás Echavarría shared advice from his sports psychologist that cut deeper than any swing tip: “Speak to yourself the way you’d speak to your best ...