{"id":9306,"date":"2016-04-26T10:56:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=9306"},"modified":"2016-04-26T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:56:06","slug":"carr-82-coaches-sports-mental-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/04\/26\/carr-82-coaches-sports-mental-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Carr \u201982 coaches sports&#8217; mental game"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8309\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2015\/01\/05\/carr-82-comments-on-luck\/chris-carr-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8309\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8309\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/01\/chris-carr.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Chris Carr '82 has visited campus to share his expertise in improving athletic performance \" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Chris Carr &#8217;82 has visited campus to share his expertise in improving athletic performance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Dr. Chris Carr \u201982<\/strong> is the sports psychologist for Indiana Pacers basketball.\u00a0 This week, Chris was featured in an <em>IndyStar<\/em> article about the approach he takes in advising Pacers players through observations of body language, actions, and performance during critical points of the game.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/pacers\/2016\/04\/24\/chris-carr-watches-advises-pacers-their-psychologist\/83471868\/\">Click here<\/a> to read the article.<\/p>\n<p>After Wabash, Chris earned a Maters\u2019 and PhD in Psychology at Ball State University. Chris was an athlete at Wabash, then coached high school football while earning a graduate degree in counseling.\u00a0 An Olympics training center job and internship during grad school turned into a lifetime career as a sports psychologist.\u00a0 In addition to the Pacers, Chris\u2019 clients have included Indiana Fever, Purdue, Butler, and the USA gymnastics team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chris Carr \u201982 is the sports psychologist for Indiana Pacers basketball.\u00a0 This week, Chris was featured in an IndyStar article about the approach he takes in advising Pacers players through observations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9309,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306\/revisions\/9309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}