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Dr. Aimee Kimball, Ph.D., is the director of mental training at the UPMC Center for Sports Medicine. The Ebensburg native has served as a mental training consultant to numerous collegiate, elite, youth, recreational and professional athletes, teams and athletic organizations. This week, she spoke to the Tribune-Review about the mental aspects of golf.

Pick-Up Games Offer Good Alternatives To Organized Sports By Scott Robertson Eleven-year old Tony Picardi of Scott Twp. plays soccer in the Chartiers Valley Athletic Association. He does it for fun. But when he really wants to have a good time, he plays soccer, baseball and basketball with his neighborhood friends. "I like the pick-up games," he said. "We play just for fun. Wh...

In an age of hyper-competition for youth organized sports, how can you make sure that you keep a healthy balance in your child's life? Mental training and peek performance consultant Aimee Kimball offers parenting advice in response to a question from MH reader Nathaniel in Durham, NC whose son did make the basketball team.

If you play the game, you'll pay the price. But will you go down for good? Or get back in the game? The choice is yours. The answers are here.... Though I was skeptical, she quickly won me over. "Since you've been injured," Kimball said at our first meeting, "you've probably heard people telling you what you can't do. My job is to say, ‘Here's what you can do.' "