Can a sports audience influence the score?
Supporting your favorite sports team can be very encouraging and can send a motivating message to the players. It can be expected that exceeding player expectations as a spectator, can have a positive impact on an athlete’s performance, raising scores and achievements.
Coaches are more considerate about optimizing training, but audiences can play a spectacular role in giving athletes hope, strength, and motivation, which can never be underestimated. Both should be integrated to raise performance and improve the score. No one can ignore the impact of both as part of the team’s success. People might think that both the scores and the number of audiences both go hand in hand and that a person who feels encouraged will always do more than what is expected. However, that was not Krol’s opinion when asked, do you think the amount of audience affects how the players feel or perform in games, Daniel replied “It shouldn’t have an impact. And the reason I say that is most athletes tune out a crowd. The greatest athletes will not care what the crowd reaction is to anything or whatever. Because they’re focused on what they’re doing at the moment. That’s again is my opinion of it.”
When MRU students start attending and supporting MRU cougars, it may help raise their awareness of sports, thereby the athletes could act as role models for students. Daniel Krol says, “the spectators and the audience aren’t there for the athletes, it’s the fan experience and it’s the game atmosphere that it affects and that they affect the audience has and what the audience does is largely impacted on how the team does, if the team is not doing well in a game, there’s only so much that we could do at the table at the announcer and the sound and promotions to get the crowd amped up to help amp up the team so you can’t have one without the other or the other without the other, right, it goes hand in hand a lot.”
Krol’s focusing on the crowd during games, but the audience’s effect doesn’t only occur during the game but rather stay with the player’s conscious mind every time they train or during planning for the games.
In order to encourage more MRU students to attend the games and support the Mount Royal Cougars teams, more efforts should be done to increase the awareness among students that game attendance is free as Daniel states, “We are the cheapest ticket in town, all full-time students get in for free, so if that’s our target audience there’s no reason we shouldn’t have students in the audience”.