Whether you're trying to make the varsity team, earn a college scholarship, compete professionally, or simply enjoy your sport more, mental performance training can give you a competitive edge.

Together, we'll develop the skills that top performers train every day, including:

• Building lasting confidence that isn't dependent on results

• Managing performance anxiety and pregame nerves

• Improving focus and eliminating distractions

• Developing effective self-talk and a champion mindset

• Bouncing back quickly after mistakes and setbacks

• Performing under pressure when the stakes are highest

• Creating consistent pregame and in-game routines

• Recovering mentally from injury and returning with confidence

• Strengthening resilience, composure, and emotional control

Every session is personalized to your goals, your sport, and the challenges you're facing. My mission is to help you compete with confidence, trust your preparation, and perform at your best when it matters most.

Every athlete is different, so every session is tailored to your goals, sport, and current challenges. Whether you're struggling with confidence, overthinking, handling pressure, or maintaining focus, we'll build a plan that's specific to you.

A typical session includes:

* Reviewing recent highlights or challenges to identify key mental performance opportunities.

* Learning one or two evidence-based mental skills that can be applied immediately.

* Practicing those skills through discussion, visualization, and performance exercises.

* Developing personalized strategies for training and competition.

* Creating a simple action plan so you know exactly what to practice before our next session.

Mental performance is a skill, just like strength, speed, or mechanics. My goal is to give you practical skills and tools you can use every time you step onto the field, court, course, or track, so you can compete with greater confidence, composure, and consistency.

Sessions are typically over google-meet or zoom for efficiency.

* Mental Performance Coach

* Certified Mental Performance Coach specializing in confidence, focus, composure, resilience, and performing under pressure

* Former NCAA Division I athlete and Olympic Training Center veteran

* Retired U.S. Army Colonel with 20 years of medical leadership in high-pressure environments

* Combat veteran and wartime physician

* Triple-board certified Physician in Sports Medicine, Adolescent Medicine, and General Pediatrics

* Coach and mentor to youth, high school, collegiate, and professional athletes across multiple sports

* Passionate about helping athletes build the mental skills to perform at their best when it matters most

* Parent to 3 children and married for 23 years

The best coach I ever had was my high school cross-country and track coach, Mr. Riley.

He taught me far more than how to run faster. He taught me to love running. He made hard work enjoyable, celebrated the small victories, and reminded us that big goals are achieved one mile at a time.

Years later, he was there to celebrate one of the biggest moments of my life, my wedding. That says everything about the kind of coach he was.

That's the kind of coach I strive to be. I want to help athletes improve their performance, but even more importantly, I want to help them grow into confident, resilient people who know they're valued far beyond the scoreboard. If years from now my athletes remember how I made them feel more than what I taught them, I'll consider that a successful coaching career.

I believe every athlete is more than their sport. Wins and losses matter, but the stats, rankings, and scoreboard should never define your identity or your worth.

My coaching is built on the belief that confidence, focus, composure, and resilience are trainable skills, not personality traits you're born with. I'll challenge you, encourage you, and equip you with practical tools that you can use in competition and in life.

You'll never hear me promise more playing time, scholarships, or championships. What I can promise is that if you're willing to put in the work, I'll help you build the mindset and habits that allow you to perform closer to your potential, handle adversity with confidence, and enjoy competing again.

My goal isn't just to help you become a better athlete. It's to help you become a more confident, resilient person long after your playing days are over.