Mondays with Morris!* :) [9]

This Monday with Morris went extremely well. I spent my time being the track team's personal sports psychologist. Coach shared with me the difficulty that one of the throwers, Jamal, was having - he would do well throwing over a hundred feet during practice, but during an actual track meet, his abilities wouldn't show as well. It seemed as if he got nervous at the track meet. Jamal had the talent; it just didn't show when the team needed it the most. We spent the whole practice getting Jamal to focus on his throwing and trying to find different things that he may have been doing wrong. We even went as far as giving him his own personal "tattoo" (written by Coach Morris with my purple ink pen) on his arm. The tattoo was "150" and put there to remind Jamal of his goal. I also attended the track meet that Wednesday, when I returned from my sponsor visit, to be Jamal's personal motivator. I tried to keep him focused before his throw and I must have done a pretty good job because he did really well! :)