Focusing on your game and getting ready for the play.  

But then you hear yelling from the stands, you were already in your head and now it’s only been made worse. 

What are you doing? 

Parents can get intense and impassioned when watching their kids play, but when a player has their coach in one ear and multiple parents in the other the game can get aggravating. 

“It is mentally frustrating when a parent is yelling at you during the middle of the game,” senior softball player Trinity Kuntz said. “It makes you more frustrated with yourself and it just takes the snowball effect.”

That ball should have been caught.

To combat this, players sometimes try to tune out everything around them. 

“I think it depends on the athletes and how they deal with it,” Kuntz said. “Most people when they get in the game tune everything out and focus on what needs to get done for the team.”

Stop standing around and move. Quit letting it get by you. 

Quit being afraid to throw it.

Even when your game is good, it feels like you are doing it wrong. 

“I have been yelled at many times for being ‘too aggressive’ to their daughters in a game,” senior soccer player Bella Moises said. 

That was an easy play. 

Even though it can be distracting, the excitement from the stands can boost adrenaline and bolster one’s performance, too.

“It makes me want to do better (when I hear it),” Moises said. “And knowing that my friends and family are there makes me want to do better because I know they are supporting me.”