Dr. Katie Nichols - Director of Mental Performance - Staff Directory

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Dr. Katie Nichols

Title:
Director of Mental Performance
Email:

Began at Louisville: October of 2022

Summary of Current Role:
Oversee a team of mental performance coaches providing performance enhancement services to athletes, coaches, and support staff in a comprehensive and integrated sport psychology delivery model. Her work is grounded in a holistic approach to performance enhancement and personal development.

Career History:
Louisville Athletics :: Director of Mental Performance (Oct 2022 - Current)
Amplos/Clemson Athletics :: Mental Performance Coach (July 2018 – Sept. 2022)
Notre Dame Athletics :: Coordinator for Student-Welfare and Development (June 2017 – June 2018)

Career Highlights:
Nichols was previously a mental performance coach at Amplos, a performance psychology practice, where she served as a mental performance coach to Clemson Athletics. Her primary responsibilities include developing and implementing mental skill training to teams, one-on-one support with individual athletes, as well as comprehensive and integrated support and development to coaches and support staffs. While with Amplos, Nichols additionally facilitated performance enhancement services to corporate partners, including Global 500 companies.

Prior to Clemson, she served as the coordinator for student-welfare and development at the University of Notre Dame, primarily focused on student-athlete leadership development and community outreach programming. She previously spent six years at the University of Missouri and worked as a mental performance coach to teams and individual student-athletes. While at Missouri, she studied under the legendary sport psychology professional, Dr. Rick McGuire, earning her master’s and doctoral degrees in Sport Psychology.

Certifications/Awards:
2017 Doctoral Student Practice Award from the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP)

Education:
University of Missouri :: Ph.D. in Sport Psychology Performance (2017)
University of Missouri :: M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology with focus in Career and Sport Psychology (2014)
University of Kansas :: B.S.E. in Sport Science (2011)
University of Kansas :: B.G.S. in Psychology (2011)

Personal:
Originally from Dallas, Texas, Nichols and husband, Wes, are excited to call Louisville home.