20% Project Post 1

I already knew a little about sports psychology because it is a career that I want to pursue after school. One thing that I learned from research is that sports psychology is a relatively new field of psychology. Dr. Carl Diem founded the first sports psychology lad in Berlin in the 1920’s. With this being a new area of study, there is not a lot of people that know what sports psychologists do or what it takes to be a sports psychologist. To be a sports psychologist, a person would actually need to have a background in psychology as well as kinesiology. The mind is only one part to being a sports psychologist, but in order to good at what you do it is useful to know how the body functions and how different things can effect the body. I also realized that being an athlete would help with understanding how to help other athletes that I would be fortunate to work with in the future because I know some of the things that they have to deal with. I would be able to understand both sides of the session with a client.  There are numerous things that could affect an athlete’s ability to perform at their highest ability. There are also a lot of athletes in the world today from high school to the professional level. All of these athletes want to perform the very best that they can and would be looking for help in improving their performance if it is available to them. I feel like sports psychology is a great field to get into because it is new and there are people that are going to need them to improve their performance in their own sport.