Dylan Bruzzese, MA
Mental Performance Coach
Dylan is a former soccer player who deeply understands the mental demands of high-level sport. He played over 15 years of competitive soccer with Woodbridge Strikers Soccer Club, where his team won the Ontario Cup and finished second at the Canada Soccer National Championships in 2015. Dylan went on to play with the men’s soccer team at Laurentian University, and later transitioned into coaching.
As an athlete, Dylan faced many of his own performance challenges throughout his athletic career, such as injury setbacks, performance anxiety, and feeling unsupported and lost. As a coach of youth and elite level soccer, Dylan brings experience supporting youth development, while helping elite performers navigate the pressures of high-performance sport.
Today, Dylan works with athletes across multiple sports, helping them build confidence, manage pressure, and develop the mental skills needed to consistently perform at their best. He believes that mental performance is an extremely useful skill that needs continuous development throughout an athlete’s career.
Mental performance coaching helped Dylan find new meaning as an athlete and an ‘extra gear’ on the field, he wants to do the same for you.
Education: M.H.K, Human Kinetics – Sport Psychology Specialization, Laurentian University
Core Clients: Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, Hockey, Track and Field
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Sean Mahoney is a member of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), and a Master’s candidate in the Sport and Performance Psychology program at the University of Denver. For as long as he can remember, Sean has been fascinated by human performance and how to gain an edge over the competition. For most of his athletic career, he focused on the physical aspect of performance but neglected the mental. Because of this, he struggled with performance anxiety, focus issues, and limiting beliefs pertaining to confidence and self-doubt. His lack of focus on optimizing his mental game prevented him from reaching his full potential.
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