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Two reports come out of the Mental Skills Questionnaire. One goes to the athlete and is theirs alone. One goes to the coaching staff and never contains a single athlete's name. Both are below, in the real format, with invented numbers.

Sample one

What the athlete receives

This arrives after the questionnaire. Every score sits on a 20 to 100 scale and describes where the athlete stands, not a ranking against anyone else. The team column only appears once enough teammates have taken it for an average to mean anything.

Illustrative. Jordan Reyes is not a real athlete and none of these numbers came from a real questionnaire. The layout, the scale, the wording and the structure are exactly what a real athlete receives.
Sports Mental Skills Training
Jordan Reyes — your MSQ results
Taken September 9, 2026 · Soccer · Midfield
Overall
68
Solid
Mental Abilities
74
Strong
Mental Skills
61
Room to build
Health & Well‑Being
70
Solid

These are positions on a scale, not a grade and not a diagnosis. A lower number points at something worth training, nothing more. Your team's average is shown where enough teammates have completed the questionnaire.

Mental skills — the trainable ones
MeasureYouWhere you sitTeam avg
Self-Efficacy80Strong72.4
Goal-Setting80Strong75.1
Meaning80Strong78.0
Joy80Strong80.6
Acceptance60Solid63.3
Confidence60Solid71.8
Imagery60Solid58.9
Positive Self-Talk60Solid62.1
Resilience40Room to build66.7
Arousal Regulation40Room to build54.2
Attentional Control40Room to build59.5
Mental abilities — how you take information in
MeasureYouWhere you sitTeam avg
Executive Functioning80Strong70.2
Conscientiousness80Strong74.8
Processing Speed80Strong69.4
Openness80Strong71.0
Intellect70Solid68.3
Extraversion60Solid64.9
Neuroticism60Solid61.7
Health and well-being
MeasureYouWhere you sitTeam avg
Relationships80Strong77.5
Nutrition80Strong68.1
Sleep & Recovery60Solid63.9

Your Health and Well-Being score is built from several measures. The individual well-being items are reviewed by Dr. Quinn, a licensed psychologist, and are not displayed here. If something in them warrants a conversation, you will hear from us directly rather than reading it off a screen.

Where to put your reps

Three measures came back lower than the rest, and all three are trainable. They also tell a consistent story, which is useful: resilience, arousal regulation and attentional control together describe what happens after something goes wrong in a match.

Start with arousal regulation, because it is the one with the most direct tools. A repeatable breathing pattern you can run in four seconds during a stoppage gives the other two something to stand on. Attentional control follows from it, and a reset routine you can execute between the mistake and the next touch is the specific thing to build.

Take the questionnaire again in about a month. These three numbers are the ones to watch, and they are the ones most likely to move first.

Questions about anything here, reply to the email this came in and it reaches us directly. The Mental Skills Questionnaire is a screening and training tool. It is not a diagnostic instrument and it does not replace care from a health professional.

Sample two

What the coaching staff receives

The staff report answers a different question. Not how is this athlete doing, but where is this roster strong, where is it fragile, and what should the season plan account for. No athlete is named anywhere in it, and no individual score is shown.

Illustrative. Northside Union 16U is not a real program and every figure here is invented. A real report is produced from a real roster's completed questionnaires and is reviewed by Dr. Quinn before a staff sees it.
Sports Mental Skills Training · Team Mental-Performance Intelligence
Northside Union 16U — preseason baseline
Reporting window September 2026 · Prepared for the coaching staff
Roster invited 24 Completed 21 Completion rate 88% Usable for reporting 20

One completion was set aside for low response consistency. That check runs on every questionnaire and is the reason a number in this report can be trusted.

Team overall
66
Solid
Mental Abilities
72
Strong
Mental Skills
59
Room to build
Health & Well‑Being
68
Solid
How the roster is spread on mental skills
High performance zone · 6 athletes Building · 9 athletes Most room to develop · 5 athletes

A team average hides this. Two rosters can both average 59 while one is evenly spread and the other is split into a confident group and a struggling group that need entirely different things from you. This one is the second kind.

Where this roster is strongest

  1. Goal-Setting, 78. Athletes know what they are working toward. Your existing structure is landing.
  2. Conscientiousness, 76. They prepare. Attendance and effort problems are unlikely to be the constraint this season.
  3. Relationships, 75. The room is healthy. That matters, because it is the precondition for anything you try to change.

Where the season is most likely to hurt

  1. Arousal Regulation, 51. The lowest measure on the roster. This is the team that tightens in a close game.
  2. Resilience, 54. Recovery after a mistake is slow, and it is slow across the group rather than in a few individuals.
  3. Attentional Control, 57. Only 7 of 20 report having a pre-performance routine at all.

What we would do with this

These three measures are one problem wearing three names. Arousal regulation, resilience and attentional control all describe the same ninety seconds: what happens between a mistake and the next play. On this roster that window is the difference between a close loss and a close win, and it is trainable inside practice you already run.

The concrete move is a pre-performance routine, because only 7 of 20 have one and it is the cheapest thing on this list to install. Build it into the existing warmup rather than adding a session. Then retake the questionnaire at the midpoint of the season and look at those three numbers specifically.

The five athletes in the lowest band are the group to watch, and the report tells you how many there are without telling you who they are. If you want individual follow-up, that is a conversation with Dr. Quinn and it happens with each athlete's consent.

The privacy rule, and it is not negotiable.
A coach never sees an individual athlete's scores through this report. Athletes are told that before they start, which is a large part of why 88 percent of them answer honestly. Aggregate figures are only published where enough athletes have completed the questionnaire that no single person can be identified from them.

Talent got you here. Your mental edge makes you different.

The questionnaire is free, it takes about ten minutes, and the report above is what comes back. Programs start with a conversation.