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Calm Your Try-out Nerves By Lisa Brown If you’re like me, tryouts make you nervous. They can be ESPECIALLY nerve-wracking if you have a new coach or team to impress. But, nerves can be a positive thing IF you know how to make them work for you. So I rounded up some good advice for ya… BARB BAUTISTA, forward on Team Canada: “I get nervous when I have to play with players I don’t know at tryouts, because I can't predict what they’re going to do on the ice. So I make a special effort to talk to the new players until I’m comfortable with them.”  LAURA WARNER, captain of Team Canada: “If I don’t know the coach, I’m pretty disciplined about making sure I’m doing the little things right, like marking the other centre. This takes my mind off what the coach is thinking. I get into the game and my nerves fade away.” LISA BROWN, three-time World Champion: “To calm myself down, I prepare for each ice time by listening to music on my discman. I always listen to the same song from the movie Flashdance. I use this song because it says, ‘Take your passion and make it happen.’ I usually hit the ice pretty pumped up.” Of course, the best advice of all is to have fun. |