{"id":12177,"date":"2016-08-29T07:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T14:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=12177"},"modified":"2016-08-29T07:48:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T14:48:37","slug":"taylor-named-us-ski-team-sport-psychology-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/taylor-named-us-ski-team-sport-psychology-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Named US Ski Team Sport Psychology Consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SkiTeam_400x400.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SkiTeam_400x400-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"SkiTeam_400x400\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I have recently been named the sport psychology consultant for the U.S. Ski Team&#8217;s women&#8217;s Europa Cup, D, and FIS NTG teams. I will be providing a comprehensive, structured, and consistent program of mental training to the athletes and coaches. This program is acting as a pilot project that I hope will be adopted team wide by the USST in the coming years to help its athletes be better prepared for success at the 2022 Winter Olympics and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Though I have worked with many USST athletes individually over the years, this is my first opportunity to work with the USST formally. It is truly a dream come true for me and gives me the chance to help USST athletes achieve their goals in a sport that has given me so much and that\u00a0I love deeply.<\/p>\n<p>My mental training program includes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>At least two in-person trips (I spent two days with the teams at the Center of Excellence in Park City in July and will do at least one on-snow camp).<\/li>\n<li>One to two group Skype sessions per month through April.<\/li>\n<li>Working with the coaches to incorporate mental training (e.g., imagery, routines) into the athletes\u2019 overall athlete development program.<\/li>\n<li>Individual Skype sessions with each athlete.<\/li>\n<li>Enrollment in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorprimeperformance.com\/prime-ski-racing-101-6-week-mental-training-course\/\">Prime Ski Racing 101<\/a> 6-week online mental training course.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I want to express my gratitude to Tiger Shaw\u00a0(CEO, USSA), Troy Taylor (no relation; high performance director, USSA), and the women&#8217;s development coaches, Thomas Erhard, Kris Shampeny, and John Cashman, for supporting my involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am absolutely thrilled to announce that I have recently been named the sport psychology consultant for the U.S. Ski Team&#8217;s women&#8217;s Europa Cup, D, and FIS NTG teams. I will be providing a comprehensive, structured, and consistent program of mental training to the athletes and coaches. This program is acting as a pilot project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1516],"tags":[394,155,710],"class_list":["post-12177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ski-racing","tag-mental-training","tag-sport-psychology","tag-u-s-ski-team"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}