Left sock first, then right sock. Left shoe first, then right shoe. This is DePaul men’s soccer player Caleb Pothast’s ritual before every practice and game.
“It always has to be on the left side first or else it’s not going to feel right,” Pothast said. “If you change things up, you’re all out of whack, but if you have this habit of going ahead and doing certain things first, you’re ready to go and zoned in on the game.”
Pothast is not the first athlete at DePaul to perform certain rituals before a game.