Mental performance coaching can help you better understand what happens between your best performance and the moments when things do not go the way you want them to.

We might work on confidence, focus, preparation, handling pressure, bouncing back after mistakes, developing routines, or another part of the mental game that is affecting your performance. The work will depend on you, because athletes do not all struggle with the same things or respond to the same strategies.

My goal is to help you understand your own performance better and develop mental skills you can use independently in practice and competition.

A session starts with understanding what you are experiencing and what you would like to improve. We may talk through a recent game, a situation that keeps showing up, or something you have noticed about the way you prepare or compete.

From there, we will identify what may be getting in the way and work on strategies that fit you. That could include developing a routine, practicing a mental skill, changing the way you respond after a mistake, or finding a better way to prepare for a situation that creates pressure.

You will leave each session with something practical to work on or pay attention to before we meet again. I want the work we do together to show up where it matters: in practice and competition.

I have more than 20 years of experience coaching and developing baseball players.

I currently serve as Associate Head Coach, Director of Mental Performance, and Infield Coordinator at the University of Charleston, WV. I also serve on the 16U Task Force for USA Baseball, evaluating players for identification, selection, and national team development programs.

My previous experience includes serving as Hitting and Defensive Coach for the Mat-Su Miners in the Alaska Baseball League and managing the professional Colorado Springs Snow Sox, where our expansion team finished its inaugural season 30–16. I also spent nearly a decade as the Head Baseball Coach at Central High School in Keller, Texas.

I hold an M.S. in Sport Psychology, teach Sport Psychology as an adjunct professor at the University of Charleston, and am a CMPC candidate through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. I am also OnBaseU Hitting and Pitching Certified and Driveline Foundations of Pitching Certified.

I am a co-author of Inside the Diamond: A Beginner’s Guide to Baseball’s Mental Game and have presented to coaches through USA Baseball.

The best coaches I have had were the ones who cared enough to be honest with me while also taking the time to teach me.

They did more than point out what I was doing wrong. They helped me understand why something mattered and gave me the opportunity to work through it. They expected a lot, but I knew those expectations came from wanting me to improve.

That has stayed with me throughout my own coaching career. Players deserve honesty and accountability, but they also deserve a coach who is invested in helping them figure out how to get better.

I want athletes to know that mental performance coaching is a collaborative process. I am not going to tell you there is one right way to think or compete. We will work together to understand what helps you perform at your best and what tends to get in the way.

Parents should know that my goal is not to make an athlete dependent on a mental performance coach. I want players to develop greater awareness of themselves and build skills they can eventually use on their own.

I also take the boundaries of mental performance work seriously. Mental performance coaching is not mental health treatment, and if something comes up that falls outside my scope, I will be honest about that and encourage the appropriate support.