Jerry Lynch

While most would consider him simply a sports psychologist, Dr. Jerry Lynch is a coach, mentor, and teacher who guides and coaches athletes and parents to explore the meaning and purpose of sport as a powerful vehicle to help us understand the mental-emotional-spiritual components of the athletic game and how they apply to the bigger game called LIFE. In the process of this exploration, overall athletic performance is greatly enhanced.

Dr. Lynch has a deep calling, one where his success is not measured by "making a living" but rather by "making a difference" in the athletic and personal lives of those with whom he works. He helps others to understand how the sport is a microcosmic classroom for helping athletes, coaches, and parents of sports kids develop crucial capacities to love, respect and care for each other while simultaneously learning to enhance the spiritual elements of courage, commitment, compassion, patience, perseverance, sacrifice, integrity, trust, belief, and selflessness: the values so absolutely essential to extraordinary performance in athletics and life.

Using an unconventional approach, he combines Eastern thought, Native American tradition, Christian mysticism, and western psychology to help coaches, parents, and their athletes to create confidence, mental toughness, inspiration, and empowerment for competitive events and better to navigate the unchartered waters of sports parenting and life.

Dr. Lynch has been recognized as one of the top five in his profession nationwide. He has worked with men's and women's basketball, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, golf, and other sports at the universities of North Carolina, Duke, Maryland, California, Syracuse, Stanford, Harvard, and Middlebury. He continues to work with several teams and parent groups nationally. Several of his clients have participated in various summer and winter Olympic Games. Most recently, he has established a consultancy with Steve Kerr, head coach of the World Champion Golden State Warriors. In the past 30 years alone, he has been part of 54 Final Four and 36 National Championships at the collegiate and professional levels.

Dr. Lynch is a well-known and in-demand public speaker at Leadership, Coaching, athletic and corporate conventions and a national presenter of conferences, clinics, and workshops for coaches, sports parents, and athletes in college and high school. He is dynamic, entertaining, motivating, provocative, and humorous, presenting topics on Peak Performance and the Way of Champions in a practical, easy-to-apply manner. 

Some of his presentations include Keynote Talks at the New Zealand National Academy of Sport, Der Deutsche Schmerztog in Germany, the National Field Hockey Coaches convention, the Ironman Sports Medicine Conference in Hawaii, the USA Lacrosse National Conventions and the NIKE/China Leadership Summit in Lanai, Hawaii.

Dr. Lynch has had extensive media interviews coverage, such as being an invited guest on CBS, NBC, and PBS national television, the New York Times, Oprah Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Baltimore Sun, Outside Magazine, and over 50 national radio broadcasts, podcasts, and webinars.