Lizzy

former food blogger. former d1 runner at American U. passionate track and field fan

[Nokona Baseball @nokona_baseball]

Have a day Jonathan Jacques! The 13u Brave launched 2 💣💣 in the Championship Game of the @TCS_BB Summer Nationals in Myrtle Beach! What a way to cap off the year! @NatickBaseball #nokona

[Dylan Colanto @dylancolanto]

Some swings from a fun week in Myrtle beach playing in the TCS Summer Nationals with @nokona_baseball. The team did not have the ending we wanted but overall had a great time.

8 for 14 - (2 Doubles + 1 Triple)
.571/.600/857 - (1.457 OPS)
2 RBI | 5 Runs | 5 SB

[Dylan Colanto @dylancolanto]

Some swings from the PG Best of the Best tournament with @nokona_baseball. Team finished with a record of 1-1-1 in pool play making the silver bracket championship game where we won.

6 for 13 – 2 2B
.462/.462/.615/ (1.077 OPS)
5 RBI | 6 Runs | 4 SB

[Sean Frost @TheSeanzy_]

This sign wins😆😆

[Will Ahmed @willahmed]

If I were at Nike I wouldn’t have taken it down. Nike’s DNA is winning and competition. It’s an ad for the Boston Marathon which is a RACE that is very hard to qualify for in a city that has a winning sports culture. Those details matter.

The line was good in that it “cut through” and got people talking about Nike. That’s the point of marketing. And I can guarantee you there’s a whole group of people in Boston who are runners and walkers alike that read it and loved it.

But you hear from the haters first and Nike folded. The brand needs to find their “Just do it” identity again. Unapologetic and aspirational.

[CELTICS ☘️ BANNER 19 @BiggLynch]

Jrue Holiday lob to Rob Williams over Luke Kornet 🥹The Celtics multiverse is in full effect. Love these guys forever. ☘️

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“I’m attracted to the dark side of greatness. The gap between a hero and a villain is very similar to the gap between winning and losing and good to great. The gap is so much closer than people think. It’s the very small fundamental details that separate you,” Joe Mazzulla

The immeasurable value of fundamentals.

[FanDuel @FanDuel]

Is Jaylen Brown the MVP? 🤔

❤️ for YES
🔁 for NO

Speak up, don’t hold back 🗣️

[Dan Clark @DanClarkSports]

The Red Sox have lost 8 of 10.

Kids in Boston are fucking starving.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Can we broadcast more sprint races with this angle?

The traditional angle makes it so hard to see who is actually in the lead and how the race dynamics play out.

This one lets you see it all. No explanation needed.

[Travis Miller @travismillerx13]

Sha’Carri Richardson chasing down other runners after the staggered start

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Most adults can't sprint. They lose the capacity to.

They're body limits them to striding it because after years or decades of never doing it, the risk is too high.

One of the best things for your health and longevity is maintain the capacity to sprint.
https://t.co/MonGfAWdCm

[jb @lockedupjb]

“I know I look rusty, I know I’ve made some mistakes. But one thing I do know is I’m trying my ass off… I’m a little winded but 10 and a half months after tearing my Achilles I’m giving it all I got. And I know each game I’m going to get a little better.”

— Jayson Tatum

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

Cooper Lutkenhaus is a prodigy on the rise becoming the YOUNGEST World Indoor Track Champion EVER! 💪

📺: World Athletics Indoor Championships on Peacock and NBCSN

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Most people are getting this wrong. It's not being coached hard or soft...it's a coach saying the right thing at the right time to get them out of a spiral. And focus them on what matters.

When you're in that spiral, your attention scatters. You're replaying mistakes, drifting into the future, losing the moment.

Frese disrupted it in two ways.

First, she walked directly to Okanawa, locked eyes, and forced her to focus and connect with her in the present.

Second, she gave confidence AND agency.

"I believe in you...But you've got to want this moment." This isn't my story..."

She didn't say, "What are you doing...get your head in the game." Those feed the spiral, giving your brain evidence that it's all going wrong. Akin to telling a nervous person to "just relax."

In our lowest moments, we need a signal that someone still sees what we're capable of. And then gives us the agency and challenge to go get it.

She scored 7 points in the third quarter after that exchange, added 6 more in the fourth, and finished with a team-high 21.

Maryland still lost. But Okananwa showed up.

It was a brilliant display of snapping a player out of everything scattering towards catastrophe:

"Really what that was, was a regroup moment for myself and her telling me she believed in me. Sometimes that's really all you need to hear."

Research backs this up.

Psychologists at the University of Amsterdam found that whatever emotional state coaches expressed predicted their players' emotional state and subsequent performance.

Angry coaches produced frustrated players who made more errors.

Another study of basketball players found that low to moderate anger targeted at a specific problem could improve performance.

Raw, undirected intensity made things worse. Targeted intensity that was aimed at something solvable worked.

Texas A&M football coach Mike Elko put it this way: "My job is to be calm and collected when they're frantic. My job is to create intensity when they're not intense. My job is to always be opposite the moment."

The leader's job is the counterbalance.

Frese saw her star's attention drifting when the moment called for focus and controlled fire.

So she brought the intensity Okananwa wasn't generating on her own.

Most people see the intensity and think that's the important takeaway. It's not.

It's just one tool used in a specific moment.

Frese said it herself after the game: "You can't have those conversations if you don't have a relationship with them."

It's the relationship underneath that gives you the ability to use the right tool at the right time.

Sometimes that tool is direct eye contact and I believe in you.

Other times, it's taking a calm breath with and a reminder that I value you as a human, not just an athlete.

Or, as I had one athlete request one time, "Just cuss me out in the last 400. Tell me it's worth dying for..."

Sometimes you pull out the crazy if that disrupts the cycle.

Know your athlete. Build the relationship. Then know when to disrupt the cycle and focus them on the work at hand.

[Boston Celtics @celtics]

34 PTS
6 REB
7 AST
2 STL
1 BLK

Another dominant performance by JB 💪

[jb @lockedupjb]

225-86 is insane

[JT Muse @TatumMuse]

OH BOY

[Natick XC & TF @NatickTF]

John Bianchi State Champion in the Mile with a PR 4:11.83. Freddie van der Velden 5th in 2nd best ever 4:19.26.