Bonneville High Distance Program Mission Statement
To provide an emotionally positive, safe and
unconditionally caring environment that will provide athletes with the all the
knowledge, training principles and mental tools necessary to achieve optimal
human performance not only on the field of competition but in their personal
lives as well.
What Coaches give to the
athletes. What Athletes
give to the Coach /Team
Respect Respect
Communication Communication
Unconditional Support Trust/Faith
Science of the Sport Hard
work
Art of the Sport Listen
to YOUR body
Mental tools Sky is the limit attitude
Fun experiences Have
fun
“Racing does
not strengthen character, it only reveals it.” Dr. Cory Holly
“As George Leonard, an Aikido Sensei, writes in the
book Mastery, the deepest
satisfaction we can get from chasing a goal is to wire ourselves into the daily
rituals of practicing our chosen activity and focusing on the quality of the
process. When the discipline
itself becomes the reason we do something, then how we do in key events, like
races or competitions, no longer dictate the enjoyment of what we
do……Regardless of the result, whether we come in last or get our picture on
Wheaties box, Leonard says the true master acknowledges the performance with
humble dignity, then goes back to the daily practice of the sport. “chop wood
and carry water,” he writes, which is the martial arts way of putting it. If you win, chop wood and carry
water. If you lose, chop wood and
carry water.” T.J. Murphy
editor of Triathlete Magazine
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