About Mental Games

Mental Games is multimedia master's project created by Jamie Goldberg at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Jamie Goldberg is a multimedia journalist and 2013 graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. As a former Division III college softball player, Goldberg battled with performance anxiety around throwing a softball for years without quite understanding what was going on or how to fix it. Seven years later, her passion for sports and her personal connection to sports performance anxiety prompted her to create this project to illustrate a serious problem that has traditionally been stigmatized or ignored in elite athletics.

Credits

This website was created, produced, and designed by Jamie Goldberg.

Adviser: Richard Koci Hernandez | Additional advisers: Cynthia Gorney, Jeff Greenwald, Paul Grabowicz, and Jeremy Rue.

Additional video footage by Octavio Lopez-Raygoza and David White.