Summer Montabone

One area that many athletes underestimate the importance of — is sleep!

And you can’t cheat sleep…..

😴 Sleep & Recovery
+ Growing athletes need 8-10+ hours of sleep

=> go to bed at a consistent time
=> limit screens 30 to 60 minutes before bed
=> stretch, breathe, journal, or wind down after games or intense activity

Sleep is when growth hormone is secreted to recover, repair, and grow.

Sleep helps your brain stay focused and ready.

📝 Studies show that athletes who get less than 7 hours of sleep at night are at 60% more risk of injury.

Prioritize sleep, just like you do training, as it is an important key to athletic success!

🥎🏐⚽️ In the Dream Big. Be Fearless. Mindset Workbooks for Girls in Sports, I provide simple tips and checklists, like this, to help athletes perform at their best.

You can’t perform at your best if your body isn’t properly prepared.

And remember ….

Preparation builds confidence 💪



When a team is struggling with attitudes, drama, effort or cohesiveness, one of the first questions I ask is:

“Does your team have Core Values?”

I’ve seen the same questions come up over and over in groups lately — How do we help the team? How do we change the culture? How do I help my daughter?

When coaches are struggling with things like this, I always come back to Team Core Values.

If you want it to be effective, The girls have to be part of the process.

They have to be given the opportunity to think about what kind of teammate they want to be, what they want their team to stand for, and what THEY want their culture to look like.

The same can be said for an individual athlete or your own daughter.

I know what you’re thinking — and you’re correct. 😂

You can’t just tell her what to do.

She has to come up with those answers herself.

✏️ When she actually takes pencil to paper, she has an opportunity to process her emotions, problem solve, make her own decisions and take ownership of her journey.

And THAT is going to be so much more effective than us just telling her what she should think, feel or do.

It’s one of the reasons I created The Fearless Mindset for Girls in Sports — to give girls a place to work through these things and develop their own personal Core Values, confidence, resilience and leadership skills.

I hope you’ll check it out! 🖤 I’ll put the link down below.

And I LOVE seeing coaches use it for their framework — a high school volleyball coach just ordered 40 copies for her team so they can intentionally work on confidence AND culture together.

Sometimes building a better team starts with helping each girl understand who SHE wants to be 🩵 

This is why if you see me out and about, most of the time I’ll be sporting a bun 😉

Now that the kids are back in school, I’ve been scheduled for podcast interviews — and whew ! I’ve got to figure out how to tame this hair 🦁

I never wear makeup anymore and I just let my locks flow — glad I can use turning 50 as an “excuse” to just let myself be!

Not really — like many young girls and women, it took me a long time, and it’s still a working progress , to embrace my authentic self — mentally and physically —

And that’s one reason I hope through my mindset workbooks it doesn’t take this generation of girls 40+ years before they start accepting who they are and being their authentic self.

I can’t wait for this podcast episode to come out, as I let it all out, not just my hair 😂

I just wanted to take this opportunity to remind you and your daughters that you are perfectly imperfect ♥️

Be Fearless. Be You.

xoxo
Summer

Cue the confetti! 🎉🥎♥️

Join me in celebrating 10,000+ copies sold!!!

The Softball Mindset Workbook has officially passed 10,000 copies sold on Amazon — and that doesn’t even include bulk and team orders.

TEN. THOUSAND. 🤯

When I created this workbook, I wanted to give young athletes practical mental fitness tools I wish more of us had learned growing up — building confidence, working through mistakes, managing the mental side of competition, setting goals, and learning to lead themselves.

To think that more than 10,000 copies have made their way to young softball players is pretty incredible!!

Behind every number is an athlete learning to believe in herself a little more — and a parent, coach, or team choosing to intentionally develop the person behind the player.

♥️ THAT is what makes this number mean so much to me!!!

Thank you to every parent, coach, athlete, and organization who has purchased, shared, recommended, reviewed, or gifted one of my workbooks!! It truly means the world to me!! ♥️

We aren’t done yet. We are just getting started!! 💪

Dream Big. Be Fearless. 🐆♥️



#100000

Teams are grabbing these to build Confidence & Culture together 💪

The Volleyball Mindset Workbook has sold over 3,000 copies and The Volleyball Mindset Daily Journal is the next step to reinforcing that foundation with Mental Reps in just 6 Minutes a Day🎉💜

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… appropriate for many age groups with thoughtful diverse inclusions, coloring sections, inspiring quotes and of course wisdom from a coach and former pro athlete.
As a middle school coach, I would not hesitate to recommend this journal. “

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“This tastes like expired happiness”
- Referring to eating her dad’s yogurt

“My plants are really planty.”

“ When are the cucumbers going to $@&! grow?!”
- in an English accent

“Is that a nerve?”

“ I don’t understand how people sit out and tan all day? Don’t they have anything better to do?”

“ What do they do in the winter? Just get frostbite?”

“ Why can’t you bend your toes back like that?”
- Showing me her skill

“ why are your knees so tan?”

“Lari is a potato.”

Me: Can you through this rotten peach for me out in the woods, please.

“ Unless you have a catapult, that’s a no.”

Me: Do you want to go with me to pick up Mina?

- she whips out a Starbucks written coupon I gave her at Christmas.

“Is toffee made from coffee and Carmel?”

“Those cars are literally copy & paste.”

“Why is it baking soda?”

“Now back to my story.”

♥️ I love having this girl around — it equally exhausting and entertaining spending 10 minutes with her 😁

I want to keep track of more of our “conversations”because there have been some really good ones ♥️