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Sports psychologists do a variety of things.
They also enhance performance such as goal setting, concentration, use of mental imagery and team building. Smith entered the field of sports psychology 25 years ago with a research project about how coaching affects children. From his research, he developed a coach-effectiveness training program. An event that propelled him even further into the field was a research project involving test anxiety and students. One of the members of the study, a UW football player, decided what he had learned from it could be useful during games.