Congrats to Stanford for their National Championship win over Penn State!

WOW!

Can you say, ‘TEAM WORK’?

Maybe the definition for ‘team work’ should be changed to ‘Stanford Men’s Volleyball’???

Their win was a great showing of team work, determination, confidence and FOCUS the ‘ENTIRE GAME’.

Notice how I emphasized ‘ENTIRE GAME’? Why?

Too many teams from club to college find it very hard to stay focused on the end result they are looking to achieve: WINNING

What I see all too often and hear from coaches all over the world is two-fold:

1) ‘we are winning by a lot, but end up losing because we feel we already won when in fact there is a long way to go until the end of the game’

2) ‘when we are down, but plenty of time left to come back it still seems to be too late, because in their heads they have already lost’

OK..Unfortunately, this happens over and over.

My suggestion is to elude ‘confidence’ amongst yourselves..amongst your own team. Play YOUR game and play until the END. The reason I say ‘confidence amongst yourselves’ is because if you try to show confidence to the other team it may turn into ‘cockiness’ and that can come back to bite you.

There is a huge difference between cocky and confidence. Take the confidence path, like Stanford.

They came into this game very confident in their ability and played as one.

Play YOUR game and good things will happen……

Play THEIR game and, well…I think you know.

CONGRATS STANDFORD MEN’S VOLLEYBALL FOR YOUR AWESOME WIN OVER PENN STATE!

Congrats Penn State to an awesome year!

Confidence….

Team Work…

Determination..

and

FOCUS

THE ENTIRE GAME!