The purpose of this study was to assess the Mental Skills Training Programrnimple m e ntation and It s Impact on Performance Enhancement among longrndis tance runne rs of Ethiopia.rnThe me thodology e mployed was descriptive s tudy m e thod. 1 00 athletes w e rernselected from 10 firs t division long distance athletics sport clubs. And thernathletes from each club were selected by simple random method of sampling. ArnQuestionnaire with a to tal of 25 ques tions was distributed to the s ample drnathletes and was returned after p roperl y filled . Focus group discussionrnin te rviews also conducte d with 30 athletes who were purposefully selected fromrn5 clubs of the 10 athletics clubs of research sample. 10 co a ch es of s e lected clubsrnand five le cture rs of s port science from AAU & KCTE w e re als o participating inrnthe intervie w. The results of the questi o nnaire w e re analyzed u s ing d escriptivernstatistics; frequency counts, pe rcentage, mean, and grand mean and s implernnarratives were used as data a nalysis techniques.rnThe results of the study indicates, the re is a proble m relate d to mental s killsrntraining program in giving emph asis to it parallel w ith the physical aspect ofrnsport training by coaches. And the coaches are not aware a b out MST. Mor eoverrnthere is no efficient u se of MS T by the a thletes due to less support from theirrncoaches. This is firstly due to lack of awareness and attitude of the coa ches andrnsecondly the s port administrators' low attitude and le ss emphasis to the MSTrnprogram.rnBased on these findings , the possibl e s olutions are the lack of awareness andrna tt itudes about MST by co aches and s port adminis trators should b e c hange drnthrough cons istent seminars and awareness creating trainings . The re searche rrnconcludes that the re is lade of aware n ess and attitude about the MST programrnimplementation and it s ,:mpn cl in pelform an ce improve m e nt. Due to the failure ofrnunderstanding how to impl eme nt MST prog ra m , the athle tes fail to solve differentrnpsychological injurie s and pro blems which happen during/ after training orrncompetition.