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03/11/2022

Dr. Ross Flowers partners with Cal Maritime Athletics to provide valuable mental health and sports performance support

12/07/2018

http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/25419065/florida-gators-lacrosse-player-makenzie-mason-struggles-depression

Florida undergrad and lacrosse player Makenzie Mason opens up about her struggles with depression and her childhood growing up as the daughter of a college football coach.

08/21/2018

Mental health & black athletes in the NBA:

A childhood filled with violence, poverty and racism can lead to lifelong anxiety and depression for even the league's best players.

07/29/2016

It's out! Read about Kids & Sports in the August issue of the Costco magazine. Buy your copy of Introducing Your Child to Sports at www.GilesLLC.com.

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Dr. Ross Flowers integrates decades of experience in athletic competition, coaching and sport psychology into performance focused one-on-one and group consultation services. Dr. Ross Flowers offers motivational speaking, corporate challenges, sport psychology, performance consulting, mental conditio...

07/22/2016

Costco members look for the story on Introducing Your Child to Sports in your upcoming August member magazine.

06/30/2016

Why does your child want to play a sport? Is your child playing for the recognition, reward, or to satisfy a parent's desire? Consider teaching your child fundamental motor skills & life skills strategies. https://gilesllc.imatrixbase.com/istore/0_books.html

06/28/2016

Parents begin preparing your child for a positive experience in sports. If your child will be participating in sports for the first time or continuing with a sport they like, do your research to find the best available sports program, coach, and teaching environment for your child and family. Teaching sport fundamentals is a must for early athletics!

09/16/2015

Americans are fanatic about football! Young football players are receiving a lot of attention as a result of playing outside their minds and the lines of sport. Recently, we have seen youth football players hit an unassuming referee from behind, use a helmet to hit an opposing player in the head, and a college football player punch an opposing player in the groin. Parents, coaches and young athletes are excited to play and compete for another season. However, within all of our competitive spirit and enthusiasm, remember to teach and learn how to play the games the right way.

Teachers affect eternity. One can never tell where a teacher's influence stops.

08/25/2015

Working at the IAAF Track & Field World Championships is a great opportunity to work with some of the world's greatest individual competitors. During my years of experience with USA World Championships Track & Field teams (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011), I found great diversity in individual personalities, mental/emotional/physical approaches to competition, distractions and methods to manage distraction, communication styles, self-awareness and confidence to just name a few. Yet, one of the more important and defining attributes of performance was and still is an individual's ADAPTABILITY. Within the moments of performance it is critical to have an ability to recognize a change in the environment, manage and/or frame a positive reaction to change, know what skills to apply in order to effectively adjust to change, and be able to successfully execute high performance skills within a changed performance environment.
Time and time again in performance, and life, we will experience expected and unexpected changes. In order to successfully adapt to change we must develop awareness, knowledge and skills of adaptability to successfully move forward.

Best wishes to all those competing and adapting at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing.

06/19/2015

Dr. Ross Flowers had a wonderful conversation about maximizing athletic ability with NFL veteran . Check it out http://tinyurl.com/nkcuc6n

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06/17/2015

Parents we have a great opportunity to talk with your children in sports about how to handle success and loss in sport. Last night the player's reactions to the game offered great room for discussion. Talk with you child(ren) about how players responded under pressure and to each other. For example, how do you think LeBron handled himself at the end of the game?

05/21/2015

Jerry Large talks with Dr. Ross Flowers and writes about Kids and Sports in the Seattle Times: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/kids-and-sports-life-lessons-not-winning-should-be-the-goal/

Psychologist wants to make sports for children more about growing than winning.