Mental performance coaching for athletes

Train your mind.
Elevate your game.

Built for Pressure. Trained to Soar.

Build confidence, sharpen your focus, and learn to reset after mistakes so you can compete with composure when it counts.

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London 2012 hurdles photo by David Jones
Soaring Over All RoadblocksBased in Oregon

Coaching for competition

For competitive athletes, especially club and high school athletes preparing for the next level. If pregame nerves, inconsistent focus, or fear of mistakes are affecting your performance, coaching gives you skills to practice in training and use in competition.

Individual sessions

One-on-one coaching

Weekly sessions and a personalized mental training plan to build confidence, improve focus, and develop a game-day routine.

Six weeks

Performance Edge

Practice handling pressure and resetting after mistakes. Track your progress across six weeks, with feedback for athletes and parents.

Teams and clubs

Team workshops

Ask about group sessions on resetting after errors, communicating under pressure, and developing shared routines.

Additional training areas include speed and agility, strength and power, movement quality and injury prevention, endurance, coordination and balance, and vertical jump development.

The S.O.A.R. method

Practice mental skills in training so you have something familiar to turn to under pressure.

  1. S

    Self-awareness

    Notice what happens to your thoughts and focus under pressure.

  2. O

    Ownership

    Identify what you can control before and during competition.

  3. A

    Action

    Practice cues and routines you can use in the moment.

  4. R

    Resilience

    Build a reset routine so you can get back to the next play.

Athletes in competition

Usain Bolt celebrates relay gold at Rio 2016
Usain Bolt celebrates relay gold at Rio 2016
Fernando Frazão / Agência Brasil · CC BY 3.0 BR
The U.S. women’s gymnastics team celebrates gold at Rio 2016
The U.S. women’s gymnastics team celebrates gold at Rio 2016
Fernando Frazão / Agência Brasil · CC BY 2.0
The men’s 110-meter hurdles final gets underway at London 2012
The men’s 110-meter hurdles final gets underway at London 2012
David Jones · CC BY 2.0
Lane markings at a 110-meter hurdles start line
Lane markings at a 110-meter hurdles start line
Santeri Viinamäki · CC BY SA 4.0
Air Force blocks at the net against Chicago State
Air Force blocks at the net against Chicago State
Mike Kaplan / U.S. Air Force · Public domain
Women’s indoor volleyball at the African Games
Women’s indoor volleyball at the African Games
Owula kpakpo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Stanford’s Candice Wiggins drives to the basket at the 2008 NCAA Final Four
Stanford’s Candice Wiggins drives to the basket at the 2008 NCAA Final Four
majorvols · CC BY-SA 2.0

Meet your coach

NyEma Taylor

NyEma Taylor founded S.O.A.R. to help athletes build confidence, focus, and resilience through mental skills training and strength and conditioning. A certified mental skills trainer, she has spent more than a decade working with competitive athletes across sports, with collegiate track and field experience at UC Berkeley.

As strength and conditioning director and mental trainer at Absolute Volleyball Club, she designed seasonal training around athletes’ ages, skill levels, and competition schedules. Her approach starts with sound movement and builds toward strength, power, and skills athletes can use in competition.

“Do no harm. Build the athlete from the inside out.”

7th

National finish for the volleyball team NyEma helped train, the highest in club history.

  • Programming for about 275 athletes across 21 teams
  • Six years as a strength and conditioning director
  • Exercise and sport science background and a Leadership MBA

Request a consultation

Tell NyEma your sport, level of competition, and what you’d like to work on. Parents and coaches can reach out on behalf of an athlete or team.

Email NyEma ↗

hello@soarperformanceoregon.com