The Focused Athlete
It takes more than just technical skills and expertise to be a high performing athlete or coach. It takes being able to identify and understand how your emotions affect your performance. Sarah Kivel, Emotional Intelligence Executive Coach and Founder of eiFOCUS™, interviews elite coaches, athletes and leaders in organizations, to learn how they use their emotions to help them succeed in their sport (and in their life). Each episode contains tools on how you can learn to become more focused and present so that you can begin to let your emotions work for you instead of against you.
The Focused Athlete
Episode 6: Maggie Steffans and the importance of teammates
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Maggie Steffans
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Season 1
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Episode 8
In this episode, we talk to Maggie Steffans. Maggie is considered to be one of the best female water polo players of all time in the world. She is a 2x Olympic Gold medalist and Team USA Women’s Water Polo Captain and Stanford University graduate. During the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, Maggie set an all-time record as the leading scorer in Olympic history for women's water polo. In this episode, Maggie talks about the how she manages pressure, she shares some of the ways that she prepares for competition, and she talks about the importance of her teammates…