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Former Paralympian transforming Timbers’ mindset as team’s mental performance coach
['Anne M. Peterson', 'Ap Soccer Writer']
oregonlive.com
I trust the team.’”It’s three minutes of Zen before Portland coach Phil Neville gives his pregame talk.
The Timbers are perhaps the only Major League Soccer team that practices meditation as a group before every game.
It’s a practice introduced by Henderson, who joined the Timbers this season as the club’s mental performance coach.
She joked that being a Paralympian didn’t exactly pay the bills, so she went back to school and got a master’s degree in sport and performance psychology.
Instead, it’s often the things that players are dealing with off the field that can impact what they do on it.