Mental Performance for Student-Athletes - Bucknell University Athletics

Bucknell Athletics is committed to providing support services to our student-athletes to assist in the ongoing enhancement of their athletic performance. Through team and individual sessions with our mental performance consultants, Liz Brookhouse (virtual) and Nick Fuller (in-person), we hope to provide tools, strategies, and resources to achieve optimal performance. Our mental performance consultants are available during the academic year on a scheduled basis to work with student-athletes on the following topics:

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Liz Brookhouse

LIZ BROOKHOUSE

Liz Beaubrook is a Mental Performance Coach and the Owner of Meliora Performance, LLC. In this role, Liz works alongside her clients, empowering them to increase their potential and push the limits of what they thought to be possible. Her focus is specifically on helping individuals and organizations develop mental toughness, establish high-performance cultures, and enhance leadership skills.

Currently, Liz works with Division I athletic departments and the United States Army. She has held positions as a Mental Performance Coach and Human Performance Director with the Army Human Performance Group and the US Air Force Human Performance Program. As part of the Army Human Performance Group she helped research, teach, and coach Soldiers to be tactical athletes and collaborated with the Army Resilience Directorate and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. In her work with the Air Force, Liz was responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team in opening a new performance center in San Antonio, Texas to enhance physical and mental performance of our nation's fighter pilots through all stages of their training.

Liz earned her B.S. in exercise physiology from Michigan State University and her M.S. in sport and performance psychology from Miami University (Ohio). Liz is a member of the Association of Applied Sport Psychology and is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC), the gold standard certification for mental performance practitioners. She enjoys spending time with her family and swimming, biking, and running in her spare time. She occasionally does all three on the same day when she competes in Ironman triathlons.

NICK FULLER
I've been captivated with the mind-body connection during performance ever since I failed to live up to my potential as an athlete. It wasn't for a lack of physical ability but a lack of mental ability. My confidence was here today and gone tomorrow. I went on a quest to understand why my mind often set my limits rather than my skill and effort. I studied sport psychology at West Virginia University and then went on to get my masters degree from the California University of PA in the same field. From there, I worked for the United States Army, working with Army Rangers, Apache Pilots, and Infantrymen, helping to increase their resilience and become battle-ready. I coached the same skills in the field of sport psychology to the soldiers. I've now transitioned to working with athletes full-time. I launched The Tactical Mind in 2019 and have helped student-athletes from pretty much every sport increase their mental game to separate themselves from the competition. My client list includes professional athletes, Olympians, All-Americans, Division I athletes, and high school All-Americans.