Davy Phrathep: Baseball player and clinical psychology doctoral candidate on athlete performance.

SEA4 Podcast: Southeast Asian Athlete Achievement > Adversity

Davy Phrathep and his brother David took up baseball during their childhood in Florida. The brothers, whose parents were refugees from Laos, would go on to be the first known Lao Americans to compete at the NCAA Division I level. While Davy may have hung up his glove after graduating from Florida International University, he would merge his athletic experience with his academic pursuits and delve into the world of sports psychology. While pursuing a PHD in clinical psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Davy is working with The Optimum Performance Program, an applied research, and training program focused on the development, evaluation, and training of performance optimization programs for athletes. In this powerful episode, Davy will take us into the world of sports psychology and help Ko Chandetka unpack some of the struggles that he faced as a professional bodybuilder.