Mental Performance Coaching with Bre Smedley: Snapback Routine, Team Culture Systems, and Parent Support

About this episode

Bre Smedley discusses her mental performance framework for coaches and parents, focusing on key skills and team culture.

In this Contacts Coaching podcast episode, former guest Bre Smedley, co-founder of Elite Competitor and a championship high school volleyball coach, shares how her mental performance framework has evolved into plug-and-play tools for coaches and resources for parents. She explains key skills—failure recovery (the “snapback routine”), self-talk, and visualization—and describes how the snapback routine (breath, reset word, reset signal) helped her team stay composed in a state championship comeback. Reflecting on a season that ended in third after four straight titles, she discusses how pressure can reveal cracks in culture and the need to systemize values, communication, and accountability. Bre also covers parent influence, including avoiding badmouthing coaches/teammates, improving car-ride conversations, and supporting athlete autonomy, plus guidance on aligning college-sport goals with habits and recruiting effort. 00:00 Welcome Back And Reintro 01:10 Bre’s Coaching Origin Story 02:55 From Framework To Coach Program 05:10 Snapback Routine Explained 09:18 State Title Pressure Test 13:02 After The Streak Lessons 16:46 Culture Cracks And Systems 19:49 Parents Coaches Athletes…

People in this episode

Host: Justin Clymo

Guest: Bre Smedley

Topics covered

• mental performance coaching
• team culture
• parent support
• failure recovery
• self-talk
• visualization

Keywords

• snapback routine
• coaching
• athlete autonomy
• pressure management
• parent influence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Elite Competitor

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