Olympic archer Ellison lets competition ‘go to his head’

“It’s all mental,” says the 19-year-old Ellison, a native of Glendale , Ariz. , who won the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials gold medal in May. “I train more mentally than I do technically. When you’re working on form and shooting, it’s good to work on your technique, but at the same time, you have to work on your mental routine and your mental game.