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Senior Sport Psychologist at US Olympic & Paralympic Committee · Experienced Sport Psychologist with a 30 year history of working in elite sport.
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Dr. Sean McCann. Dr. Sean McCann is a senior psychological services provider at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC). Joining the USOPC full-time in 1991, he has traveled to the last 15 Olympic Games as a sport psychologist for Team USA.
McCann is a licensed clinical psychologist in Colorado and member of PsyPact multi-state telepsychology consortium. Sean is a Past-President of the Association of Applied Sport Psychology,...
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- United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee
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- Coaching Connections
Ideally, McCann starts working with teams two to four years before the next Olympics so he can build strong relationships with athletes and coaches as they compete in trials and pressure builds. "You're like any other coach, except you're focusing on the mental domain," says McCann, who estimates that USOC sport psychologists spend 100 days a year ...
For Jim Bauman, PhD, the consulting sport psychologist for USA Swimming, the key to working with athletes is to make his suggestions as concrete as possible. "Athletes tend to be a lot more visual and kinesthetic learners," says Bauman, who spends most of his year as a sport psychologist at the University of Virginia. "They're hands-on versus audit...
Working with coaches is another way to make sure sport psychology messages get through to athletes, says Steve Portenga, PhD, chair of the psychological services subcommittee at USA Track and Field. Portenga has helped develop educational programs that teach coaches basic sport psychology principles and help them understand the needs of special pop...
Oct 10, 2020 · Team USA Senior Sport Psychologist, Sean McCann, who has worked with elite-level athletes for 29 years, shares three tips to help swimmers stay on top of their mental health. Mental Health Tip No. 1: Remember the foundation for mental health is physical health.
Apr 20, 2020 · Senior Sport Psychologist for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee Dr. Sean McCann joins the program live on Tuesday, April 21 at 4pm ET. Continuing with the field of Sports Psychology, the “Expert Connection” series returns to the Panam Sports Channel on Tuesday, April 21 with Dr. Sean McCann.
Feb 5, 2015 · Sean McCann, senior sport psychologist for the United States Olympic Committee, and former president of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology, on the role that sport psychology plays in Olympic performance and winter sports.
