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What is one piece of advice you’d give to young professionals following ive questions. It all boils down to knowing yourself (as

starting in the ield?
best you can when leaving grad school). (1) Why are you unique?; (2)

What (or who) is your niche?; (3) Why should someone hire you?;
CHARLIE BROWN
(4) Why you?; and, (5) Why now? 
Develop your Contextual Intelligence - what you know is not as

important as what people do with what you know.

Members in the News!

JACK LESYK

Although many young professionals want to work with Olympians

and professional athletes, this just isn’t realistic. There are only a

small number of athletes in these categories, and they are likely to

be working with senior members of our profession. I suggest work-

ing with high school age athletes. There are so many of them, they

need our services, and there is a 100% turnover every four years.

AASP works to make our Members in the News
Many parents are willing to spend large amounts of money on such

services, especially when it can be part of a program that leads to a resource a more accessible and timely source of

four-year athletic scholarship. Best of all, you can do a lot of good in
information. For your convenience, these reports
working with this population in teaching life skills, guiding positive

are no longer listed on your website, but instead
values, and helping them develop a healthy identity as an athlete

and as a person.
are posted to our Facebook and Twitter accounts.

With a variety of information, updates and In The
STEVE MELLALIEU

When shaping your service delivery philosophy regarding how you News content posted weekly, you will be able to

seek to practice with clients, it is essential that you irst get to know stay up-to-date with the most current news in the

and understand yourself in terms of your own competencies and sport psychology industry.

boundaries, both as a practitioner and as a human being. Remember

that everyone is unique and has their own style. By all means, use

Follow us on Twitter at @SportPsyAASP or on
others as inspirations, but don’t imitate, don’t try to be someone

or something that you are not! Work on your self-awareness and Facebook at Association for Applied Sport

be comfortable in your own skin before you seek to help raise the
Psychology to get more frequent updates about
self-awareness of others!

the work our membership is doing in the popular

ALISON RHODIUS
press.

This is a great question and one I get asked often. At JFKU our focus

is on application in the ield, so we ask our students to consider the

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