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Ben Loeb has done extensive research in the area of sport psychology, self-improvement, and team building. He is the author of two published books. His first book, Next Level Coaching: How to Use Sport Psychology to Educate, Motivate, and Improve Student-Athlete Performance, was published in 2018 (Greenleaf Book Group). The second book he co-authored which is entitled, The Athlete's Playbook Building a Culture of Mental Toughness: The Pyramid Model, was published in 2020 (Championship Productions). Ben developed a curriculum guide for a course in Sport & Performance Psychology. He has taught the course at Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri, for nine years, where he also coaches both the boys' and girls' tennis teams. The teams he has coached have won 1,138 dual meets (tied for most wins in Missouri state high school history, as of year-end 2020), nineteen state championships, and forty- one Final Four appearances (20 boys, 21 girls) in his thirty-two years as a high school tennis coach. Before coaching at Rock Bridge High School, Ben coached at Hickman High School in Columbia. He also coached the women's tennis team at the University of Missouri-Columbia while achieving an Educational Specialist degree from the College of Education (1988). Ben has coached in many United States Tennis Association sectional and national team events. He has also applied sport psychology concepts with his teams for 35 years. He has received many coaching achievement honors, including awards from the United States Professional Tennis Association, the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, the Kiwanis Club of Columbia, the Columbia Tribune, and the National Federation of State High School Associations at both the state and the sectional level.