Trust the Process: Delaware Women's Tennis Version

In 1974, W. Timothy Gallwey wrote the "The Inner Game of Tennis," 128 pages of explaining how to conquer the mental aspect of tennis and peak performance. It is a book that tennis players refer to often, but many beyond the sport have also gravitated towards in efforts to conquer their own mental challenges.

It helps a lot of people to stay focused. Many are focused by setting goals. If a team sets a goal to win its conference in the upcoming season, it may go through its schedule and mark the most significant matches, the matches it decides it must win, and perhaps some matches for which it decides to invest fewer preparation resources due to lack of competition, planning to save its greater preparation and effort for tougher matches where they deem necessary.

The University of Delaware women's tennis team is on a mission: to not have any goals.

While many teams and players set aside goals before the season, this could not be further from the minds of the women's team that calls Newark, Delaware home.

"Ironically, this is one of the first seasons when we did not talk about goals," Director of Tennis/Head Women's Tennis Coach Pablo Montana said. "Goals are out of our control; it's an outcome, so we focused more this year about the process."

This "Fight Club mentality" has had a positive impact on the team. The Blue Hens are 18-6, while boasting an undefeated record in CAA play at 5-0 so far this season, good enough for earning their highest seed in program history for the CAA Championship.

The top-seeded Hens garnered several other accolades as they just wrapped up their regular season before heading off to CAA championships hosted by Elon University in North Carolina. Delaware finished th