1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Coach Dalmagro on the mental side of the game : 11:25am, January 26th, 2026

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

With college sports especially in tennis, it's important to have a short term memory. Hear what Coach Dalmagro has more on what is important on this from his perspective!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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and boundaries of your program. But, but coach, you would be the hero of the day if you deliver this box to your team. I will leave it entirely up to you. Bach, you see how I'm delegating. this authority. I don't want, I don't want to force him to do this, but this box of cookies is special. It's spectacular. I mean, it sounds good. You describe them really well, you know,

so I'll be happy to take him. And I think the guys will be very happy to eat him, you know. It is, I think there's always a little room for that. Yeah, these boxes do well. Well, we'll just, just keep working a little harder, you know. But no, we do a good job on the front. And, you know, our dietitian actually speaks often. You're like, hey, you can have room for that, you know. You just got to everything, you know, has these limits and portions. It's a box.

You know, it's one cookie for each. Yeah. Yeah. No, that sounds like a good idea. Okay. We will make sure that. Just a little extra for coaches there too? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Oh, the coaches have a different rule. There's a whole different rule. As a matter of fact, I need to shout out Dan Swanson from Canopy Street Market. He's delivering goodies. And coach, I would imagine that there's something in the bag for you as well. So I will show you the bag and let you pick from the goodies yourself. We'll take it tomorrow. We have two days off.

So we'll take it tomorrow to practice. And I think the team will be very happy. It will go well. It will go well. Coach, it is. we watch athletics within the department and

I'll ask you bring that he's got you see this is when you know we've we've arrived coach when the Hall of Fame black shirt football player delivers your Americano see this is how you know your family now coach

when the Hall of Famer when the Hall of Famer delivers the Americano Wow that we are doing it. doing some things. Amazing. Thank you so much.

But as you watch, as you watch, Husker Athletics, does the rollover impact of the success of the basketball program, the success of volleyball, does that overflow into your practices? I would imagine that your players walk a little differently as student athletes in this program when there's this kind of success going on.

Yeah, hopefully it's contagious, right? You wanted to be contagious and you want it to be inspiring, you know, that there are all the sports or that athletes doing great things here. Like that you can be one, you know, and I think it's always that belief, right? If you have that belief and you have that mindset of thinking that, hey, if they do it, why not us, right? It's amazing. I think what, you know, obviously, we're volleyball with us, you know, year in, you're out and what basketball was doing this year is very inspiring, you know, very, It's so fun to watch him, you know, with Fred and his crew are doing. You know, I see Fred that, you know, training table and just sometimes we have a small talk and be like, hey, how great.

And it's like, yeah, this is fun. You know, it's like we're enjoying. The guys are doing a great job. It's like, it's kind of one of those that you just kind of, you just want them to just keep, keep thriving, you know. Like it's so fun to watch, you know, all the teams and all the people that you know that work hard and the best, you know, time and effort and, you know, sacrifices. And it's fun. It's fun to support that and it's fun to see that. And all you want to do is just, you know, just keep cheering for them, you know, just keep cheering and keep cheering and keep doing like, hey, just keep doing, you know, we're in your corner.

So we have the discussion over trust the process. Trust the process. Don't get out out over your skis. Don't get too far ahead. Don't get your eyes set too far down the road. Be president. Go want to know. Like all the coaching cliches and all the athletic cliches.

But your 20 wins in. And for women's tennis, there's a number in your head as the coach where you realize the season changes or it hinges because you've gone one and oh six times, seven times. How do you handle that? Do you allow those conversations to handle when people talk about rankings and seedings and that sort of thing? You try not to. We try not to. I think the key, I think what I'm assuming basketball is too, you know, you just. try to not to exactly what you say you know not to get too far ahead of yourself just just think about

the process of what you're doing and then what you're doing right what you're doing wrong what mistakes you're making within the same winds you know what things you're doing well and you try to focus on in the things that you can't control you know and and just keep just keep doing that you know and a consistent base and i don't think they're overthinking too much about it you know i think uh we're talking a little off air but i think it's more of an outside is thinking more about the the pressure, you know, all that, then the inside is just like, hey, I just want to keep playing the next game, whatever happens. I'm just going to prepare the same way. I'm going to keep doing the same thing. We try to tell our team the same thing. You're just like, hey, nobody, what the

record is or what match is in front, would you need to keep preparing the same way? We need to keep thinking that it's all your focus isn't just that match in front of you or that game in front of you and then just do the best you can and then whatever happens happens and then they just happen to keep winning, right? And they're just like, I guarantee you they haven't changed much in what they do process wide and what they do daily right they're not just going to be like oh we're 20 no two-day practice is going to be you know like let's talk about our ranking our you know let's talk about our wins no they just want like hey we're going to keep shooting we keep working we're going to keep defending we're going to keep rehab we're going to keep sleeping right i think they just keep doing the same

things they do whether they were 10 and 10 or 20 no right and if you are not doing some some things well then you are start thinking a little more about okay focusing on those things that you can do better if those things the ones that are preventing you from winning, then you cannot pay attention to those. But within the same parameters of like preparing, you know, like for our match, let's say we prepare if we win, we prepare the same way if we lose, we try to prepare the same way. And if it's the small little things, then you try to pay attention to those things, but without thinking that you need to change everything, you know, because you might be doing a lot of things right and then just come sure, you know, just last moment or maybe just play an opponent that played their best game, you know?

And so just try to keep preparing, not to get, no, don't let that ranking or wreck or get into your head because once you let your guard down, you know, things tend to go bad, you know, you just got to keep your car up. You got to keep preparing, keep playing, keep playing hard. You know, if anything, you know, you have a little more of a target on your back, right? So if anything, you will, you most likely will get their best. I don't know, everybody that plays against you. So you almost have to be even more prepared, you know. Well, you're not sneaking up on anything. I know it anymore. Absolutely no. Right. There's some things that happens. And coaches will tell you that they want to stay focused.

It's just a game. It's just the next game. It's just the next game. Except it's not just the next game. Our humanity demands that when the schedule comes out, that's why we do a schedule release, right? It's a big deal in every program. Schedule released.

And what do you do? You go down the schedule. Yeah. And you start to, do you look at that schedule based on you or do you look at that schedule based on them? You know, you on both a little bit to a point, you know, but try not to emphasize one more than other, you know, because then you overlook some others that might sneak up on you, you know? So yesterday's so matchups that you feel like, oh, this one has a little more of an importance than others. But at the end of the day, you know, they don't as much. You know, every, every match or every game kind of counts the same, right? You do a little bit because you, you know,

you see kind of how those teams maybe at the beginning of the year, how you thought they're going to be. Maybe by the time they play you, they're the same, or you thought what they were, or they're bettered, or a little worse, right? So then you're like, you know, maybe when that match it comes, you're like, well, maybe this one doesn't have as much importance as I thought. It did three months ago or four months ago. And then maybe it does more.

But to the message that you need to send your team, it can't be that. You know, you just need to be like, you know, this game matters just as much as the next game. And we're just going to focus one at a time and then do the best we can. You know, you can't. I think we lose. If you start thinking too much about the future or what's, you know, you lose strike or the present, you know, and then that's the only thing you can control is what you're doing right now, you know, that present. True or not?

A teams or players' success or failure relies strictly on them. It's more that if you focus on doing the things that you are taught to do, training to do, that you are more likely to have success than not. True or false. True. To a point, you know. That's why I'm asking. Because we have some very general wide-scoping conversations.

And I think it's okay to say, you know what, there are thirds to this thing. It actually matters that there's some true to it or some not true to it. Then you fall somewhere in between depending on situation and circumstance. I think it kind of depends on that as well. You know, there is sometimes, you know, you can have a game plan. And then sometimes the coaches do that or the players himself. Sometimes, you know, they have a game plan. And sometimes it's a matter of execution that game plan.

So it could be a good game plan. You're not executed. or it could be a, you know, maybe a game plan wasn't right, but you were executing all the things as well. So it's like, it's a little bit of like, you know, in tennis it's a very individual sport. And then obviously coaches can give game plans feedback and, you know, we work on a lot of things. But at the end of the day, you know, the player has to execute it. And then sometimes if the game plan wasn't as good, then you try to take ownership. And the execution wasn't as good.

Then you try to the player be like, hey, I need to get idea and execute the game plan very well. So it's a little more on then. So it's a little combination too, but without feeling like, without feeling that sense of like blaming. You know, we're not going to blame anybody. I think coaches don't blame. It's like, oh, it's, you know, it was your fault. You know, it's more like at times you could be like,

hey, I just didn't execute as well. At times I executed, but my execution was just happened to be, or my game plan will happen to be kind of why my opponent won. And maybe I didn't make good adjustments. At times, you know, you had to execute those adjustments. At times they don't. At times you might be playing really well. but your opponent just played just a little better than you.

Yeah. And then maybe you did everything right. So it's like, I think it's a balance. I think between like, hey, it's a kind of ability taking, you know, that all on you and sometimes feel like maybe part of me and part of my opponent too. So, you know, your opponent is just doing just as much as you are. So this is why we have coaches on. To break this down.

We'll take another break. We'll come back. We'll ask what's next for Huskers women's tennis. He's got a busy week. They had to adjust the schedule. An audible was called. They had to do something different. Let's find out from coach what's up next.

And then we'll even ask, do rankings matter? Because we have a text that asked how this system works. I know that college tennis has a whole different ranking system. We'll go through those things when we close out one-on-one.