BOISE — After losing in the national championship game last season, before the start of another year, the Gonzaga basketball team decamped last fall to a lake near their campus in eastern Washington. They spent two days there, only this wasn’t a typical team-building retreat. This trip had some of those elements—a Texas Hold ‘Em tournament, a ziplining excursion, intense games of pickleball—but it also contained an underlying theme that was decidedly more modern: mindfulness.
“We’re trying to get them to understand: How do you problem-solve?” says Travis Knight, the team’s strength and conditioning coach and the event’s organizer.