{"id":10885,"date":"2024-05-24T09:06:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&#038;p=10885"},"modified":"2024-05-24T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T14:06:38","slug":"persistence-and-vision-are-part-of-alexas-story-as-she-pursues-a-masters-of-sport-exercise-and-performance-psychology","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/persistence-and-vision-are-part-of-alexas-story-as-she-pursues-a-masters-of-sport-exercise-and-performance-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistence and vision are part of Alexa\u2019s Story, as she pursues a Master\u2019s of Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/oSXLVoX0wzI?si=bvVNaBHd7PsQ-p8L\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alexa has big dreams. Once she completes her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwgb.edu\/sport-psych\/\">Master\u2019s of Sports, Exercise and Performance Psychology<\/a> program at UW-Green Bay, her next step is working in the NCAA. Then, in professional sports. She discovered the field of sports psychology, and as a former UW-Green Bay student-athlete she knows the pressure and the feelings that student-athletes experience. With the help of her alma mater, she is determined to guide other student-athletes as they work through those complicated emotions. She is energized by the culture within her master\u2019s program. \u201cI\u2019m encouraged to learn, to make mistakes, to never give up and to grow as a student, a person and a future professional.\u201d Alexa\u2019s goal is to become a Certified Mental Performance Consultant and help professional athletes rise by focusing on their mental performance. Listen to how she plans to solve the problems of the future.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Link to original story: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uwgb.edu\/featured\/04\/18\/persistence-and-vision-are-part-of-alexas-story-as-she-pursues-a-masters-of-sport-exercise-and-performance-psychology\/\">https:\/\/news.uwgb.edu\/featured\/04\/18\/persistence-and-vision-are-part-of-alexas-story-as-she-pursues-a-masters-of-sport-exercise-and-performance-psychology\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexa has big dreams. Once she completes her\u00a0Master\u2019s of Sports, Exercise and Performance Psychology program at UW-Green Bay, her next step is working in the NCAA. Then, in professional sports. She discovered the field of sports psychology, and as a former UW-Green Bay student-athlete she knows the pressure and the feelings that student-athletes experience. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[111],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-10885","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-green-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/10885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campus_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=10885"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=10885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}