Chad is a graduate of James Madison University’s Combined-Integrated Doctoral Program in Psychology. He was the first McMillin Scholar and graduate assistant for the McMillin Center from 2014-2017. He currently works in private practice in Reno, Nevada, providing mental performance consulting to individual athletes, teams and coaches, as well as offering public speaking about sport psychology and student-athlete mental health. He is the former Director of Counseling and Sport Psychology for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas athletics department. Following completion of his Psy.D. at JMU, Chad served as an athletic psychologist at the University of Nebraska. 

Chad completed his predoctoral internship with a sport psychology emphasis at UC Davis. He received his M.A in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver in 2014 and B.A in Psychology from the University of Nevada-Reno. Chad played college baseball at Feather River Community College in Quincy, CA, where he received his Associate’s Degree.

Cierra was a Psychological Sciences student at James Madison University for the 2016-2018 school years. She is currently a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator at Duke University Health System. She previously worked as a research assistant/ junior research associate at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC). She worked within the Sleep, Health, and Wellness Lab (SleepWell) directed by Catherine Siengsukon, PT, PhD.

Cierra received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Kinesiology from The College of William and Mary in 2016 where she shadowed Dr. Deidre Connelly, Ph.D CMPC. Cierra’s research interests include: growth mindset, sports injury, experiences of black athletes, performance anxiety, social physique anxiety, and the role of sleep in recovery (i.e., following a sports injury, stroke, etc).  

Bridget Smith is a licensed clinical psychologist who received her PsyD in clinical psychology from James Madison University and her masters in Sport and Performance Psychology from the University of Denver. She completed both her clinical internship and post-doctoral residency at the James Madison University Counseling Center, where she specialized in trauma, eating, and body image concerns, and student athlete mental health.

Currently, she serves as an Athletic Counselor at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she provides individual psychological services, programming, outreach, and consultation to teams and athletics staff. Previously, she coordinated the Sexual Trauma Empowerment Program (STEP) at the James Madison University Counseling Center, provides individual therapy to students presenting with a variety of concerns and co-facilitates the STEP support group (for individuals who identify as survivors of sexual assault). She also provides supervision to clinicians-in-training. Prior to her current role she worked as a clinician at The WELL Clinic in Philadelphia, PA providing outpatient therapy to individuals with eating disorder and body image concerns.

Pat Kenny is a former Doctoral Student in the Clinical and School Psychology program at James Madison University. Currently, he is a Psychologist at Shodair Children's Hospital in Helena, Montana. At Shodair, Pat works on the children's psychiatric residential unit, where he provides individual, family, and group therapy. Previously, he earned his M.A. in Sport and Performance Psychology at the University of Denver. Prior to his time at the McMillin Center, he worked as a consultant to multiple teams, employing a holistic method (involving athletic directors, coaches, athletes, and trainers) to create winning cultures.

At the McMillin center Pat enjoyed the weekly meetings, and faculty/staff pickup basketball games. He also hosted fellow sport psychology students on his campus radio show/podcast, and served as a presenter to local coaches and collegiate athletes. His research interests include the benefits of play and movement for children and creation of healthy organizational cultures.

Liz currently works as a Sport Psychologist and Training Coordinator at Ohio State University. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Lehigh University Counseling and Psychological Services. Liz received her Master’s degree in Sport Psychology from Miami University in 2014. Upon graduation, Liz worked with Army soldiers, family members and DA civilians as part of the Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program. Liz trained mental skills for performance enhancement and increasing resilience. Her research interests include: emotion regulation and energy management in performance, effective coaching, and life skills development through sport.

Chris is currently the Associate Director of Clinical Sport Psychology Services at Providence College where he leads a team of four providers. As a licensed psychologist and CMPC, Chris works with individual student-athletes on mental health and/or mental performance, teams for mental performance and team cohesion, coaches for increasing performance and well-being amongst student-athletes, and the athletic department staff for continuing education on mental health, mental performance, and coach education.

Prior to Providence, Chris was a sport psychologist at Northwestern University, where he worked with women’s basketball, wrestling, baseball, men’s soccer, swimming & diving, and the 2021 National Championship winning field hockey team. Chris completed his doctoral internship and postdoctoral residence at Lehigh University’s Counseling and Psychological Services with a concentration in sport psychology. Chris received is Psy.D. from the Combined-Integrated Clinical and School Psychology program at JMU in 2019, where he was the second McMillin Scholar and graduate assistant for the McMillin Center. Chris received his M.A. in Sport & Performance Psychology from the University of Denver in 2014.

Parker Leap, PsyD, currently serves the Athletics Department as an Athletics Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellow. He completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology with a Spanish minor from Eastern Mennonite University and his Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Sport Psychology from Boston University.  He earned a PsyD in Clinical and School Psychology from James Madison University, where he provided sport psychology services and implemented resilience-based programming with student-athletes as a graduate assistant director under the supervision of Dr. Bob Harmison. 

He also completed his doctoral internship within the Counseling and Psychology Services at Appalachian State University, where he received specialized training and worked with student-athletes under the supervision of Dr. Jacob Cooper.

Kaleb obtained a master’s degree from James Madison University, where he served as a consultant for the Challace McMillin Center for Sport Psychology in 2016. With the McMillin Center, he provided mental skills training and education to university and high school athletes in the Shenandoah Valley.

Afterwards, he attended the University of North Texas (UNT) for a doctorate in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Sport Psychology. He completed his doctoral internship at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Counseling Services. Following internship, he became the first embedded sport psychologist for the Wolf Pack.