MELISSA WITMER

Play With Purpose. Perform With Confidence.

Helpong athletes master the mental side of sports so that they can deliver an authentic athlete performance.

Healthy Athletes, High Performance

Most athletes work endlessly on their physical game, but few ever learn how their brain shapes performance. Melissa Witmer helps athletes and coaches understand how the sports brain really works. Through engaging talks and workshops, she translates sports science into practical tools that help athletes build sports specific skills, confidence, resilience, and better communication. Melissa stands a new model of success: authentic high performance where mental well-being and peak performance work together, not against each other.

MEET YOUR SPEAKER

Melissa Witmer

Melissa Witmer is a sports performance coach and speaker who began her career in ultimate frisbee with a focus on helping athletes train for strength and conditioning. As a result of years working with athletes across all levels, she discovered that physical training alone wasn’t enough. Many athletes were struggling to perform under pressure, despite doing everything right in practice.

Combined with her coaching experience and passion for mental performance, Melissa took to the stage to help athletes and coaches better understand how the brain impacts confidence, focus, and results.

Today, her talks and workshops give athletes actionable tools to build real confidence, resilience, and stronger relationships with teammates and coaches.

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"I enjoy playing much more because I'm less hard on myself, but I'm still able to pay attention to where I need to grow."

- Jessica Sachs, athlete and workshop attendee

" I would not be the player I am today without Melissa, and I certainly would not be mentally strong enough to take on the role of captain."

- Maria Duke, athlete

"It was good! Good energy/pacing, rolled with questions well, slides weren't overwhelming walls of text, the flow of theory to application was well balanced."

- Jeremy Doll, athlete and workshop attendee

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Keynotes and Workshops

BUILD CONFIDENCE

Confidence You Can Count On

This session helps athletes understand the science of confidence and how to build it through intentional practice, not just positive thinking. Melissa teaches how to bounce back from mistakes quickly, use mistakes as data, and create self-belief that holds up under pressure.

Perfect for: athletes who struggle with inconsistency or self-doubt, and teams seeking to build collective confidence.

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EMBRACE INTENSITY

Coaching the Fire

We all want athletes who want to win. But sometimes that competitive fire expresses itself in ways that are counterproductive to team success. What do you do when hot tempers threaten to derail your gameplans? In this talk, Melissa will share a few stories from her coaching career about working with intense, passionate players. You'll get ideas for how to help your athletes navigate away from frustration and bickering and toward team success.

Perfect for: Coaches who want to help their athletes navigate high-emotion moments, and keep their competitive drive focused like a laser instead of burning out of control.