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Coaching Resilience in Junior Tennis Players

In this presentation for coaches Coach Mark Hanson, and Mental Performance Coaches Mark Lerman and Dr. Larry Lauer examine the role of the coach in developing resilience in junior tennis players. Coaches are first provided a brief look into what was presented to players and parents about resilience including the three pillars of resilient, confident competitors. Then, the majority of the discussion focuses on how coaches can develop resilient players on- and off-the-court. The presenters provide a daily framework for developing resilience in junior tennis players.

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00:00 Coaching Resilience in Junior Tennis Players

Resilience is a fundamental characteristic and skill of tennis players. Without it they will struggle with the realities of tennis.
Coaches play a central role in developing resilience in junior tennis players. Our focus is in this presentation is to alert you to what we teach the kids and how you can play your role to develop resilience.

00:57 Mark Lerman - MS, CMC, CSCS, CTPS

Coach Lerman is a mental performance coach and strength and conditioning coach. Previously he worked with USTA Player and Coach Development in the Tennis Center East facility. He has many years experience coaching players.

01:50 Coach Mark Hanson

Coach Mark Hanson serves as a faculty coach for USTA PCD. He is the senior director of high performance development at NWHP. He has developed many great tennis players and also focused on their mental development.

02:32 Dr. Larry Lauer, CMPC - USTA Mental Skills Specialist

Dr. Lauer is a mental performance coach and leads to the mental performance team for USTA Player and Coach Development. In his nearly 8 years at PCD he has created the mental performance philosophy and places resilient, confident competitors at the core of his philosophy.

02:48 Agenda

The presentation is in 2 sections
What we taught the players (brief overview, please watch that presentation to go deeper into the topic)
The coaches role in developing resilience in junior tennis players

Explain the 3 Pillars to the foundation of a Resilient Competitor
Discuss how to use Daily Mental Practice and Breathe and Believe in training and competition
Discuss the coach’s role in developing resilience in junior players

03:53 What is Resilience?

Coaches Lerman and Hanson define resilience in simple ways such as bouncing back and adapting to adversity. We also talk about how resilience is the opposite of fragile. And, how we respond to adversity is what we control and will determine if we are resilient or fragile.

08:47 Resilience

The impact of resilience on tennis and life is discussed with some excellent examples
A good tennis career and a good life will require resilience
Juniors struggle with needing to win or avoid failure/losing. They also don’t have the skills, life experiences, or perspective yet to consistently respond in a resilient manner. We must teach them and help them through experiences.

18:14 3 Pillars of Resilience

You too need a strong foundation to compete, to keep fighting when things aren’t going well
Research on resilience has revealed the existence of three things you need to exhibit resilience.
Thus, everyone can be resilient if these pillars exist.

21:29 Routines for Resilience in Tennis

Learning to be resilient is a daily habit not a tip or trick
Routines create: Comfort = calm = confident = resilient
We recommend players engage in DMP and use their routines so they are prepared for adversity and have a plan, which gives them the confidence to respond in a resilient, confident manner
We challenge you to teach it and hold them accountable for it

26:17 Coach’s Role in Developing Resilience

Coach Hanson provides his experiences working with junior players and what has worked with developing resilience
This includes creating opportunities to give back to develop a healthier perspective of success and failure

35:59 Coaching Influence

Dr. Lauer summarizes Coach Lerman’s and Coach Hanson’s points into 3 broad categories
At all times as a coach we are doing 1 or more of these things, but know we are always influencing players

38:30 Coaching Resilience Strategies

Coach Lerman discussed the communication strategies that coaches can use to support resilience development
Our words teach our players our philosophy
Use the language of resilience to create resilient responses

43:36 Implement Consistent Mental Training

Dr. Lauer talked about how training for resilience is implemented on a daily basis on- and off-court. This includes the importance of stress and adversity being a consistent part of training.
Coaches Lerman and Hanson discuss how they apply this on- and off-court

47:17 Support

Coach Lerman discussed how coaches can support players to be resilient, it’s not just about pushing them
Support through the adversity to be resilient

53:23 Take Homes

Dr. Lauer summarizes the messages of the presentation