Past Articles from Tiina Booth
Tiina Booth is the founder and director of the National Ultimate Training Camp, as well as an assistant coach for the University of Massachusetts women. She founded the Amherst Invitational in 1992 and co-founded Junior Nationals in 1998. In 2006, she published a book about ultimate with Michael Baccarini, entitled Essential Ultimate. She has coached teams to numerous national and international titles. Her ongoing passion is running sports psychology seminars for coaches and players, mainly through the Global Ultimate Training School, which she founded in 2020. More info can be found at www.NUTC.net.Tiina was inducted into the Ultimate Hall of Fame in October 2018.
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What I Think I Know
I went to bed on Friday night, looking forward to the next morning: breakfast and an estate sale with a friend, home by 11 AM…
Mar 3, 2014 by Tiina Booth in Opinion with 20 comments
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4 Keys To Building A Mental Toughness Program: Team Management (Part Two)
Don’t do this. Don’t do that. You are mentally weak if you talk about the score.
Feb 18, 2014 by Tiina Booth in Analysis, Opinion with 8 comments
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10 Uncontrollables You Shouldn’t Spend Time Talking About: Team Management (Part One)
I have been defeated by the month of January.
Feb 4, 2014 by Tiina Booth in Opinion with 16 comments
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The Emily Effect
You didn’t really think I’d let this one slide, did you?
Jan 23, 2014 by Tiina Booth in Opinion with 12 comments
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40 Lessons I Learned (And Didn’t) In My Coaching Career So Far
Below are three lists of what I learned, and didn’t learn, as a coach at Amherst Regional High School in the past 23 years.
Jan 7, 2014 by Tiina Booth in Opinion with 54 comments
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Don’t Choke: Optimizing Performance Through Mentality & Goal Setting
A veteran teacher always knows when she is losing her students.
Dec 10, 2013 by Tiina Booth in Opinion with 27 comments
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Building Your Tribe: Why Your Team Needs A Culture
It was the best of times. It was the grossest of times.
Nov 26, 2013 by Tiina Booth in Analysis with 6 comments
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How — And Why — To Start An Ultimate Day Camp
My first ultimate day camp was a failure. In 1992, I approached our town’s recreation department about offering a one-week summer camp on ultimate.
Nov 14, 2013 by Tiina Booth in Analysis with 8 comments
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The Ultimate Coaches And Players Conference Revival: Why Now?
I have never seen a year like 2012 in ultimate.
Feb 13, 2013 by Tiina Booth in Opinion with 1 comments