Springfield College is home to a multitude of sports with coaches that seek the best for their athletes. The Student asked multiple coaches and athletes around campus about the best motivation they gave and have been given.
Mia Olsen, field hockey coach
Have fun!
Mike Cerasuolo, football head coach
I’ve been very fortunate to have a lot of great mentors through my life, from my parents to my high school coaches and my college coaches here, and the values they’ve instilled in me I carry over to how we coach Springfield College football. It starts with relationships. A great motivator is when people truly know that they care about you and the development of you as a person before anything else. If you surround yourself with a lot of good people you’re going to be able to accomplish a lot of great things. The greatest thing you can bring to competition is a reason and a cause.
Kaitlyn Parent, junior, field hockey goalkeeper
Everything happens for a reason
Anna Steinman, cross country head coach
Sometimes you can visualize dreams you have even if they seem far out there, but if you’re patient and working towards little things in between, don’t be surprised when you accomplish things you thought at one time were not possible for you
Taryn Ryan, senior goalkeeper, women’s soccer
Hard work in general is better than any talent. Obviously, talent is important, but if you’re going to go out there and work your butt off – like you saw in the Amherst game – we just went out there, we worked hard and then we got the results. That’s also applied to anything outside of athletics as well, just in your daily life: working hard is really important.
Moira Long, women’s volleyball head coach
Go be fearless. Ultimately, if you’re fearful, you’re not going to achieve what you set out to achieve. Be fearless in the sense of ‘what do you have to lose.’ We know you have the skill. It’s just a mindset and the mindset is ‘I’m just going to be aggressive, I’m going to go get what I want.’
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