Career

Foreign the off-road racer, see Bruce Ogilvie (motorcycle racer). Ogilvie is often referred to as the "Father of North American Applied Sport Psychology."

Clinical sport psychologists have training in psychology so that they can detect and treat individuals with emotional disorders. These psychologists also have additional training in sport and exercise psychology and in the sport sciences.

Whereas an applied sport psychologist uses their research and findings to help troubled athletes to improve their mental game.

These psychologists work directly with athletes to help them perform better. Ogilvie was one of the first psychologists to apply treatments to athletes.

Because Ogilvie was the first to apply treatments to athletes he is referred to as the "Father of North American Sport Psychology" by the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA). Bruce Ogilvie was born in 1920 in Victoria, Canada.

During this time he attended the University of San Francisco and studied psychology and also received his masters from Portland State.

He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of London in 1954, in sport psychology. After Ogilvie received his Doctor of Philosophy the family moved to Los Gatos, California. Ogilvie then began working at San Jose State University as a professor

In 1979 he retired from his job at San Jose State University.

In 2003 Bruce Ogilvie died at his home in Los Gatos, California.