Awake Performance

Unlock the Potential Within You.

Helping athletes with personalized, evidence-based and cutting edge mental skills coaching.

Our Mission

At Awake Performance, we strive to provide athletes with tools and strategies from the most recent research in sport psychology, based on their own unique needs and goals. By providing athletes with these tools, our hope is that they can adopt a high-performance mindset that can help them achieve better performances on the field, and protect their mental health off of it.

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About the Coach

Coach Jacob Knostman graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. in Psychology from Texas A&M University. He then received his M.S. in Sport Psychology from Florida State University and went on to work as a Summer Mental Conditioning Coach at IMG Academy, and then as a Mental Performance Intern for the MLS’ Chicago Fire Football Academy. Coach Jacob is currently serving as a Mental Resiliency Trainer - Performance Expert for U.S. Army pilots at Fort Rucker. He specializes in working with athletes aged 12-16 on their performance under pressure and ability to bounce back from mistakes, but is available to work with any age on a variety of mental skills (attention/focus, confidence, goal-setting, energy management, rest/recovery, and more). Also available are teambuilding and high performance workshops for businesses. Coach Jacob does NOT provide mental health counseling/therapy.

Educating through Entertainment.

Think back to the most memorable lessons you learned. I would bet that that moment came from an experience, and not a simple verbal lesson. At Awake Performance, we strive to teach and reinforce the mental skills needed for consistent, high-performance in a way that’s fun and sticks. Through games, activities, and experiences, athletes are able to practice in real-time the skills they learn about so that they can refine them before they hit the field. Currently based in Enterprise, Alabama, however Zoom sessions are available as well.