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USOPC. Aug 1991 - Present 32 years 10 months. Colorado Springs, Colorado Area. Sean McCann has worked for the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee as a Sport Psychologist for 28 years, including...
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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.
Sean has worked full-time with the USOPC since 1991, traveled to 15 Olympic Games as a sport psychologist for the U.S. Team. He works directly with athletes and coaches to help support...
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- United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee
- Under Pressure
- Visual Learning
- 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...
Sean McCann, Ph.D . Senior Sport Psychologist, USOC . Dr McCann has worked for the US Olympic Committee as a Sport Psychologist for 20 years, including 12 years as the head of the Department. He has traveled with the last 10 Olympic Teams as a sport psychologist during the Games.
Jun 6, 2012 · Sean McCann. This article describes the rationale, the process, and the tools used by the sport psychology staff of the United States Olympic Committee to evaluate our efforts as applied sport psychologists working with Olympic athletes and coaches.
Jan 14, 2019 · She connected with Sean McCann, Ph.D., a senior sport psychologist for the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC). Frerichs met McCann when she joined USATF’s Talent Protection Program, which was...
