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The Playbook Podcast for Athletes
Life Skills, Leadership, Mental Performance, Nutrition, Parenting
The Playbook podcast for parents features bite-sized coach-led sessions on topics like nutrition, mental performance, and more. Gain insights from expert coaches from IMG Academy as they provide practical strategies to help you support your child's journey in sports and life.
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Conquering Competition Anxiety
5 min
September 10, 2025 | Dr. Rachel Hoeft | Mental Performance, Life Skills
Dr. Rachel Hoeft explores the issue of pre-competition anxiety for athletes to help you understand how it can affect your performance and what strategies you can use to overcome it so you can perform at your best.
Fueling For Competitions
6 min
September 10, 2025 | Jeanne Hendricks | Nutrition
Coach Jeanne Hendricks uncovers the importance of fueling for performance and helps you understand what foods to include in your pre-competition meals and why optimizing your nutrition can help you outperform competitors.
Turning Stress Into Strength
6 min
September 10, 2025 | Dr. Rachel Hoeft | Mental Performance
Dr. Rachel Hoeft explains how you can unleash your potential and harness stress as a catalyst for peak performance by using simple strategies to ground yourself in the moment and make it count.
Fueling For Recovery
6 min
September 10, 2025 | Jeanne Hendricks | Nutrition
Coach Jeanne Hendricks explains the importance of recovery fueling and helps you identify what foods to include in your recovery meals so you can return to competition stronger.
Recovering From a Defeat
4 min
September 10, 2025 | Dr. Rachel Hoeft | Mental Performance
Dr. Rachel Hoeft discusses the impact of defeat and how you can use those moments to drive your future success on and off the field.
The Playbook podcast for parents features bite-sized coach-led sessions on topics like nutrition, mental performance, and more. Gain insights from expert coaches from IMG Academy as they provide practical strategies to help you support your child's journey in sports and life.
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Dr. Rachel Hoeft
Mental Performance Coach
Rachel is a mental performance coach who strives to help athletes feel confident in their abilities to succeed. Throughout her career as a competitive soccer player and track runner, Rachel sustained a total of 3 ACL tears and a meniscus tear, which fueled her passion for pursuing a career in sport psychology. These experiences allow her to connect with players who have faced the most difficult of obstacles, knowing that no challenge is too big to overcome when you commit to developing your mental game.
Jeanne Hendricks
Performance Dietitian
Jeanne is an IMG Academy Performance Dietitian who started her nutrition journey as a Division I student-athlete at Towson University. There, she experienced firsthand the transformative impact of nutrition on optimizing athletic performance and supporting overall well-being. She then worked as a health teacher in Carroll County, Maryland, and later as an assistant softball coach at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. She has dedicated herself to providing athlete-centered nutrition education for high-school and collegiate athletes in individual and group settings. She is passionate about empowering athletes to optimize their health, wellness, and performance through science-based, realistic, and sustainable strategies.
Dr. Rachel Hoeft
Mental Performance Coach
Rachel is a mental performance coach who strives to help athletes feel confident in their abilities to succeed. Throughout her career as a competitive soccer player and track runner, Rachel sustained a total of 3 ACL tears and a meniscus tear, which fueled her passion for pursuing a career in sport psychology. These experiences allow her to connect with players who have faced the most difficult of obstacles, knowing that no challenge is too big to overcome when you commit to developing your mental game.
Jeanne Hendricks
Performance Dietitian
Jeanne is an IMG Academy Performance Dietitian who started her nutrition journey as a Division I student-athlete at Towson University. There, she experienced firsthand the transformative impact of nutrition on optimizing athletic performance and supporting overall well-being. She then worked as a health teacher in Carroll County, Maryland, and later as an assistant softball coach at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. She has dedicated herself to providing athlete-centered nutrition education for high-school and collegiate athletes in individual and group settings. She is passionate about empowering athletes to optimize their health, wellness, and performance through science-based, realistic, and sustainable strategies.
Dr. Rachel Hoeft
Mental Performance Coach
Rachel is a mental performance coach who strives to help athletes feel confident in their abilities to succeed. Throughout her career as a competitive soccer player and track runner, Rachel sustained a total of 3 ACL tears and a meniscus tear, which fueled her passion for pursuing a career in sport psychology. These experiences allow her to connect with players who have faced the most difficult of obstacles, knowing that no challenge is too big to overcome when you commit to developing your mental game.
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Dr. Rachel Hoeft
Mental Performance Coach
Rachel is a mental performance coach who strives to help athletes feel confident in their abilities to succeed. Throughout her career as a competitive soccer player and track runner, Rachel sustained a total of 3 ACL tears and a meniscus tear, which fueled her passion for pursuing a career in sport psychology. These experiences allow her to connect with players who have faced the most difficult of obstacles, knowing that no challenge is too big to overcome when you commit to developing your mental game.
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Performance Dietitian
Jeanne is an IMG Academy Performance Dietitian who started her nutrition journey as a Division I student-athlete at Towson University. There, she experienced firsthand the transformative impact of nutrition on optimizing athletic performance and supporting overall well-being. She then worked as a health teacher in Carroll County, Maryland, and later as an assistant softball coach at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. She has dedicated herself to providing athlete-centered nutrition education for high-school and collegiate athletes in individual and group settings. She is passionate about empowering athletes to optimize their health, wellness, and performance through science-based, realistic, and sustainable strategies.
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Mental Performance Coach
Rachel is a mental performance coach who strives to help athletes feel confident in their abilities to succeed. Throughout her career as a competitive soccer player and track runner, Rachel sustained a total of 3 ACL tears and a meniscus tear, which fueled her passion for pursuing a career in sport psychology. These experiences allow her to connect with players who have faced the most difficult of obstacles, knowing that no challenge is too big to overcome when you commit to developing your mental game.
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IMG Academy+ Coaches
Coaching Team
Conquering Pre-Competition Anxiety
The Competition Collection
Mastering the Game - Turning Stress into Success
The Power of Visualization
Pre-Competition Fueling for Performance
Post-Competition Fueling for Recovery
The Nutrition Collection
Mental Performance Fundamentals
Pre-Competition Fueling for Performance
The Confidence Collection