Troy Sweisfort

Head Basketball Coach of the Boyertown Lady Bears

[SPORTSRADIO 94WIP @SportsRadioWIP]

Tom Brady x Nick Foles Super Bowl commercial 🤣

[Eliot Shorr-Parks @EliotShorrParks]

The Eagles Super Bowl Hype Video has arrived:

[Jennifer Slay❤️ @jennwilliams23]

I’ll RT this everytime I see it on my TL😂😂

[Chloe Engler @chloeengler1025]

Excited for the upcoming season!!

[Troy Sweisfort @TroySweisfort]

@Arcadia_WBB is getting an amazing person and player @mweaver2025 so proud of her!

[Madelyn Weaver @mweaver2025]

I am so excited to announce my commitment to Arcadia University to further my academic and athletic career! A huge thanks to all of my friends, family, and coaches for the support along the way. Go Knights!! @FeverForceAAU @BoyertownLBB @Arcadia_WBB

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Brewers TV announcer after Philadelphia’s standing ovation for Rhys Hoskins: “I mean, I’ve got goosebumps.”

[Devan Kaney @Devan_Kaney]

so you had Saquon in the building, the man Philadelphia literally snatched from New York, and you didn’t have him ring the bell?

[Jay Wright @CoachJayWright]

Job well done my brother !!! A true Philly Icon forever !! Thanks for the ride @JasonKelce !! Enjoy a well deserved retirement - you've set a standard for being an Eagle !! @Eagles

[Lycoming College Women's Basketball @lycowomenshoops]

If you want to be a champion...

[BIG EAST WBB @BIGEASTWBB]

One game left and here where the stats stand 📊

Points Leaders

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

🎥 Brad Stevens said, “You got a choice - you either come in & let your circumstances control your attitude - or you let your attitude control your circumstances.”

- Attitude matters.
- Mindset Matters.
- Your choices matter.

Be a Master of Your Mind.

[Jamy Bechler @jamybechler]

PLAYERS: Your coach shouldn't have to beg you to be unselfish, provide energy, have a good attitude, or give your best effort. Those are all things you can control. That is what a winning teammate brings to a team. Great teams have great teammates.

[Jay @novashot21]

Keeping the opponent under 41% shooting and outrebounding 'em

🎥: Villanova Athletics

[Jamy Bechler @jamybechler]

PLAYERS: If you're the most TALENTED player on your team, you should also be the HARDEST worker on the team. Lead by example. Set the standard. Be the standard. Your talent might not be contagious but your energy can be.

[Troy Sweisfort @TroySweisfort]

@chrisliberto1 He finds a way!

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Late in the 2016 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Villanova blew a 10-point lead.

With 4.7 seconds left, UNC hit a 3-pointer to tie the game.

Villanova's head coach, Jay Wright, called a timeout, and as his players walked to the huddle, they were all saying the same word:

“Attitude.”

“It's the most important aspect of our program,” Coach Wright explains in his book titled, Attitude. “We wear 'Attitude' wristbands. And when we break a huddle, we say '1, 2, 3, Attitude.'”

The test of Attitude, Wright taught his players, is:

“Where is your mindset after something bad happens to you?”

Where is your mindset after you blow a 10-point lead? Where is your mindset after your opponent hits a 3 to tie the game with 4.7 seconds left?

“When I looked into the eyes of our players,” Wright writes, “I saw no anger or regret. No one bemoaned [the UNC player's] 'lucky shot,' or that any of our guys had failed to stop him from grabbing the pass that led to that shot, or anything else.”

Instead, “they were all saying, 'Attitude. Attitude. This is what we do. Attitude. This is what we do.'”

With this mindset, the players returned to the court.

Villanova's Kris Jenkins inbounded the ball to Ryan "Arch" Arcidiacono. Arch dribbled up the left side of the court, crossed half court, cut right towards the 3-point arc, where he underhanded a pass to Jenkins, who caught the ball with 1.3 seconds left, and, in perfect rhythm, jumped then released the ball with 0.6 seconds, and hit a buzzer-beater to win the 2016 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.

Takeaway 1:

A primary indicator of physical fitness is recovery time. If you are doing all-out sprint intervals, for instance—people who are physically fit recover from one interval to the next faster than those who are not physically fit.

“So then, what is mental fitness?” the mental performance coach Greg Harden likes to ask. “Mental fitness is about recovery time,” Harden says.

It's about, as Coach Wright said, where your mindset is after something bad happens to you.

After something bad happens, people who are mentally fit recover faster than those who are not.

Takeaway 2:

Just after Kris Jenkins hit the buzzer-beater, Coach Wright famously barely reacted.

Before his guys went back on the court, he explained, “I processed all the potential scenarios.” Most likely, the game was going to go to overtime where UNC would ride their wave of momentum and win the game.

“No matter the outcome,” Wright continued, “because of the way our players responded after UNC tied the game ["Attitude. Attitude. This is what we do."]—I felt like they had the greatest lesson in life. I felt like that was an accomplishment that would follow them through their lives.”

Ryan Holiday once told me, “You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”

Wright got to that place. He had done the work to instill in his players a mindset, he said, “that they would carry with them for the remainder of their days on earth.”

“In that sense, I knew we had already won.” Everything else was extra.

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“The fact is, none of us control what happens to us in life—but we do control our responses to those circumstances...no matter how tough it gets or how much of a challenge you face in the final 4.7 seconds of a game.” — Jay Wright

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[Reid Ouse @reidouse]

How do you respond to failure?

Does it take 4-5 possessions?

Love this clip from Billy Donovan.

[Cindy Webster @CindyWeb94]

Reggie White’s son here for the Kelly Green game to honor his Dad 💚🦅

[Troy Sweisfort @TroySweisfort]

Just help Miami out