Characteristics Of High Level Athlete

A high-level athlete is a hard working dedicated person. An athlete is a person who is fit as well as positive and a leader. These characteristics allow them to work with their team in an efficient manner. High-level athletes include all people who play on a team past the standard levels through their childhood and high school years. A team that would be considered high level is university varsity sports, a junior sport, and professional leagues. An athlete that is involved in any of these leagues needs to be sociable, a leader, able to keep calm in high-stress situations, and able to trust his/her teammates and coaching staff. A person who is involved in high-level sports is usually goal-oriented, which helps with improving their game.

Most of the time the ideal environment of good teammates and a good coach is not present. On teams, there is either a coach or teammate(s) that can be harmful to the athlete’s self-esteem. Most athletes have a high, unstable self-esteem. This occurs because athletes are usually very confident in themselves and their ability to play their sport but they can be influenced greatly by the events around them. Athletes pride themselves on how good they are, and, if, in the event that suggests otherwise, they tend to act out and become defensive or angry. Athletes surround themselves with people who do not put them in situations that oppose their opinion of themselves, causing them to seem like they have a high self-esteem. This is very common in athletes because if they do not believe in themselves they do not work hard to become high-level athletes. Self-esteem in high-performance athletes does not only pertain to their ability to play their sport, it carries over in everyday life. Athletes high self-esteems is shown in how they present themselves to their friends, family, and in a social setting. High-performance athletes usually don’t show that they have an unstable self-esteem because they are confident in their actions outside of their sport because they are natural leaders. Athletes are usually one of the first people talk in a setting that is new to them, demonstrating that they are confident in their actions. High-performance athletes have a global high