Dr. Katie Nichols

Biography

Dr. Katie Nichols is the Director of Mental Performance at University of Louisville Athletics, where she oversees a team of mental performance coaches providing performance enhancement services to athletes, coaches, and support staff through a comprehensive and integrated sport psychology delivery model grounded in holistic performance enhancement and personal development. Previously, she served as a mental performance coach at Amplos, a performance psychology practice, where she provided mental skill training to Clemson Athletics teams and individual athletes, as well as performance enhancement services to corporate partners including Global 500 companies. Prior to Clemson, Nichols coordinated student-welfare and development at the University of Notre Dame, focusing on student-athlete leadership development and community outreach programming. She spent six years at the University of Missouri as a mental performance coach, where she studied under legendary sport psychology professional Dr. Rick McGuire while earning her master's and doctoral degrees in Sport Psychology. Nichols holds a Ph.D. in Sport Psychology Performance and M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology with focus in Career and Sport Psychology from the University of Missouri, as well as dual degrees from the University of Kansas in Sport Science and Psychology. She received the 2017 Doctoral Student Practice Award from the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.