Suzie Favor Hamilton Comes To Oneonta!!!

On Monday, September 15, we all attended a leadership conference hosted by Olympic runner, Suzie Favor Hamilton. She inspired many people in the room, including Hammer, who won a book for sharing a sports story. Hamilton talked about the hardships that came her way throughout her life, including her brother’s unfortunate suicide and her misfortunes at her final Olympics. She talked about her hardest times as an athlete and what she did to try and escape the pressure.
After Hamilton talked, the sophomores continued on to a sports psychology conversation. It was extremely similar to last year when the psychologist came into our locker room. She drew a curve that shows where we should be during a game and explained what can happen when we fall above or below the average- you either get too anxious or too relaxed. She told us that the best way to stay at the greatest point is to figure out as a team how to encourage the right emotions.

-Hillary

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This past Monday, Olympic runner Suzy Favor Hamilton came to Oneonta to share her story. Suzy told us that her best moments in sports were not always victories; she said that she learned just as much from loosing races than winning races. Her story told us all that as much as we want to we can’t win every game, meet, or race. She taught us that you have to learn from your mistakes to overcome them. After Suzy spoke the freshmen had to go to a separate meeting specifically about time management. Here we learned that its not always going to be easy being a student and an athlete but if you manage your time correctly you would do just fine. This was helpful because I know personally I waste a lot of my time when I could be doing more productive things.
-Krissi