​​​Welcome to Personal Best Sports, your source for the latest in sport psychology information, training tips, performance enhancement techniques and inspiration.

Based in Ashburn, Virginia, Christie Marshall of Personal Best Sports is committed to providing support and training for the mental side of sport and activity for Northern Virginia's finest athletic organizations and individual athletes, sports enthusiasts, coaches, parents and weekend warriors.

Mental training involves learning and practicing skills such as imagery, relaxation, goal-setting and visualization to improve focus and attention, control, consistency, confidence, commitment and ultimately, performance. 

The goal of Personal Best Sports is to assist in the development and improvement of these skills using the latest techniques, enabling the individual to achieve their personal best performance. This mental skills "toolbox" may be used for any sport or activity.
Like at first I was a little uneasy about it, it feels like you are crazy or something, but once you go and talk, it's just more tools to help you out.

-​Marc-Andre Fleury, Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender, on working with a
Sport Psychology Consultant to help him
regain composure and control in the crease
"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."
                                        -Buddha
Champions aren't made in the gym. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them--a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have skill and the will. But the will has to be stronger than the skill.
                                       -Muhammad Ali