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In terms of mental well-being, these athlete and the student trainer is
Student Trainers a critical role players, meant to be professional, trainers
for both themselves and the athletes may nd themselves comforting
they provide training to. With regards to athletes through these
the trainers themselves, having these unexpectedly di cult points
new experiences that may put the throughout the athletic season. As
student outside of his or her comfort a personal example, an athlete
zone are key at being con dence and who shall not be named went down
self-e cacy, not only on the team that with a knee injury during a
they are working on, but in many other practice. During the process of
aspects of life as well. Student trainers identifying what exactly the injury
also play a role in the mental wellbeing was, it was visibly clear that he
of the athletes as well. Many times, an seemed de ated. To combat this,
athlete’s spirits can become very low due me and a fellow trainer talked to
to an untimely injury or a bad him to take his mind o the injury
practice/game. Although the and we were able to le t his spirits
relationship between the student and get his mind into a positive
state. In the following practices, he
was visibly more positive about the
injury and seemed more ecstatic
every time it was brought up. I
believe it was key that we cheered
him up early on so that negative
state of mind didn’t take carry
over to later practices.
