As a competitive athlete, it is important to be able to reflect on your personal abilities. In order to improve your performance, you must be aware of exactly what aspects of your performance that need improvement. What are your strengths and what are your weaknesses? As you grow in self awareness, you will better understand why you feel, what you feel, and why you behave as you behave. That understanding then gives you the opportunity and freedom to change those things you’d like to change about yourself in order to achieve your potential in sport.

Use the attached worksheet to identify 3-5 weaknesses in each area of your development as an athlete. Be honest with yourself!

strengths-and-weaknesses worksheet

Brie Jedlic is a Mental Trainer working with the Sports Medicine and Science Council of Saskatchewan. She will be submitting posts designed to help Team Sask athletes prepare for the 2009 PEI Canada Games. Brie will also be attending the Canada Games this summer on the Team Sask Mission Staff as a Mental Trainer.

A little background:
Brie graduated from the University of Western Ontario where she obtained her Master of Arts degree in Kinesiology – Sport Psychology. Upon the completion of her academics, she taught for three years as an adjunct professor in the department of Movement Science at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. At GVSU she was also the Head Coach for the Women’s Rowing program and a mental training consultant to various individual and team sports. Her sport background is very diverse. She has been involved in gymnastics, swimming, and diving at the provincial level as well as rowing at the national and international level. She was a five-time member of the Canadian Women’s National Rowing Team where she won a silver medal at the 1997 World Championships.

Contact Info:
Brie Ellard-Jedlic, Mental Trainer
1-306-530-5304
bjedlic@sasktel.net