Jamie Loeb

A trip down memory lane 🥹🩵

@Sugarc0ating Raspberries> strawberries

I don’t usually believe in second chances but this one actually lived up to it

And my tennis brain immediately thinks: “at least they don’t have points to defend”

That is some serious oblique strength

@AlGruskin Can you respond to my text

Pretty good tennis here in Phoenix... #SCTop10

@CatyMcNally I’ll play with you 😎

someone play dubs w me at IW 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😂

Joy is a competitive super power. Alysa Liu retired from figure skating at 16. She was tired of not not having fun, tired of being consumed by her sport. She came back two years later with a new goal: to have as much fun on the ice as possible. And now she’s an Olympic gold medalist. Liu won her first national title when she was just 13. But by 16, after competing in the 2022 Olympics, she decided she’d had enough and stepped away. She said pressure and losing her identity trying to be an elite athlete made it all miserable. But then, she said she went on a ski trip that reminded her just how much fun she could have doing a sport. Something in her brain clicked. Maybe she could bring fun to figure skating. Maybe she could approach it in a way that could be full of joy and life and love. She unretired at 18 and won a world championship the next year. At 20, she was ready to face these Olympic games differently than in 2022. Liu went into the women’s figure skating final in third place. After her short program, she said: “Even if I mess up and fall, that’s totally okay, too. I’m fine with any outcome, as long as I’m out there.” One of the greatest competitive advantages is having fun. People love to romanticize the athlete, artist, or entrepreneur who has a chip on their shoulder, fueled by anger and resentment. But the truth is that if you’re not having fun, you are not going to last long at whatever it is you do, and you certainly won’t get the best out of yourself. There’s a foolish idea that you either have to be full of intensity or full of joy. But that’s nonsense. It’s no surprise one of the first things out of Alysa’s mouth after her free skate was: “That was so much fun!” Joy and intensity can coexist, and in the best performers, they almost always do. Alysa is unapologetically authentic and true to her values. She has said where she used to skate to win and be technically perfect, she now uses competition as a chance to show her art, to have fun, and to put herself out there. She’s a fierce athlete with an infectious sense of joy in her sport. And she broke USA's 24-year gold medal draught in women’s figure skating doing it. Excellence requires focus, determination, a little bit of crazy, at times obsession, and living a mundane lifestyle that many people would find boring. But excellence also requires that you find deep joy in your craft, that you learn how to have fun while working hard. What makes for excellence—and not just in sports, but in anything—is the combination of intensity and joy. It’s the latter that makes the former sustainable.

@GroundPasspod 👀

If any tennis players want to join the OFF SEASON team let me know 😉

my first thought was: wow… how is she going to get ready in 60 seconds when she gets to the bench?

This makes me feel less bad after going through a block of parm in 3 days

Make tiebreak slams for @rogerfederer so he can keep gracing us 😍

@TAshleyIC Reese Brantmeier from @UNC_wtennis won the NCAA singles championship yesterday. Our hope and savior!

Brutal few days for Carolina on the Olympic sport end Field hockey loses in OT on last play. Men’s soccer loses in PKs after advancing in PKs Women’s soccer loses in PKs after advancing on PKs….with the added bonus of TCU getting extra nine seconds (and tied game w 6 left)

Got some good company!!! Go heels go Reese!!!! 🏆🏆 @UNC_wtennis @GoHeels

@MikeCTennis no

Is anyone really....wanting this?

It’s not always rainbows and butterflies, but sometimes you just have to look up 🙂

Thoughts from my insta story 💬

Sports!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥹

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