Chasing Insight

Amanda Ferranti is a certified sports psychology consultant. She has a Master's degree in sport and exercise psychology, is a nationally licensed soccer coach, and played professional soccer herself. Amanda works one on one with youth athletes to identify their performance hurdles and strategize how to overcome them to ultimately achieve their goal.  Amanda talks about her journey to sports psychology and being a scholar-athlete at Princeton University. We learn that to be a successful scholar-athlete one needs: to identify and balance what is important, the ability to prioritize, organizational and management skills, self-discipline  Amanda feels there is a difference in the mentality of kids and young adults today: the search for identity is taking longer, kids without a firm sense of self are overly dependent on praise and outcomes kids are very influenced by those around them if they do not have a firm sense of themselves. Amanda's ADVICE FOR KIDS HEADING TO COLLEGE: have a firm s