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Coaches of today must effectively perform many different roles; surrogate parent, expert strategist, technician of coaching knowledge, sport scientist, nutritional expert, and sports psychologist to name a few. Complicating the entire picture is the fact that today’s athletes are vastly different in their knowledge levels, demands, attitudes, and personalities from athletes of previous generations. The coaching role is now multifaceted and extremely complicated. It is rare individual who performs all of these duties effectively and sustain their sanity. It would be ludicrous to attempt to discuss all of these roles a coach must perform in one short chapter ( it would take an entire book), so we will address only one issue - the role of the coach in the area of sports psychology.