Bloomington High School North, Nikean, 2007, Page 116

Description:	earn Pre-gamingAthletes use rituals for mental edgePre-game rituals can be from listening to the same song to urinatingon your hands before every game like professional baseball playerMoises Alou.Senior Solomon Grimes has his own pre-game ritual.If we won the week before, I try and do the same pre-game ritualthat I did the week before, Grimes said.Although the team won those two games, Grimes said he changed hispre-game rituals depending on whether its a home or away game.Pre-game rituals give athletes an internal clock of when its timeto go (play), North football coach Scott Bless said.Bless was a college football player at the University of Indianapolis.His pre-game ritual was listening to the same music before games.I think pre-game rituals can help performance because they give theathlete a constant preparation, Bless said. But they can be dangerousif something interferes with that ritual it can affect the person.by Nick von FoersterSenior Clayton MlpiJosh Baer and lS!and sophomor^ffi^hold hands witMiflthe team during min a game verswCougars beat PillFocused on***Junior Logan Deck, a two]member, demonstratestance for the resduring the focamp. Decfavorite NFL player \ end and Ifor theMike Brown. He is a goodtackier.-junior Chris PolandChad Johnson. He has thebest victory dances.-junior Adam KilarFootball
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