Human Health and Peak Performance

This dynamic pre-college program is designed for high school students passionate about human health, performance excellence, mental fitness, and leadership. Whether or not you engage in organized athletics, we believe everyone should know how to optimize themselves in the pursuit of their dreams. To that end, "Peak Performance" incorporates the fundamentals of human health with modern research in sports psychology, performance training, and team building to prepare student-athletes for success on and off the field. 

This course reveals the wealth of collegiate services and resources that help students maximize their education potential. You’ll receive invaluable experiential learning with your instructors and guest speakers as you examine how elite athletes train their minds and bodies, guide you to find your own leadership style, and offer a comprehensive basis for building the skills, habits, values and relationships that give you a competitive edge in learning to last a lifetime.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

1. Develop protocols to optimize their personal performance, in the classroom and on the field.
2. Lead a group activity related to peak performance.
3. Understand how and why habits either enhance or inhibit personal growth.
4. Appreciate how the biology of human performance plays just as significant a role in academics as it does in collegiate athletics – and its relationship to lifelong health.

Tangible Outcomes

Final project in which each student will lead a small group in a team building or sport performance activity.

Hands-on Activities

Group Discussions to include team building activities as well as experiential aspects on field trips.

Field Trips

• Weight Room
• Athletic Training Room
• Competition Spaces
• Locker Rooms (Softball, Basketball)
• Visual Performance Lab
• Team building activities (kayaking, ropes course, etc.)
• Pickleball (or some other entry level sport) to talk through mental performance techniques and engage in experiential learning
• Nature walks in Pine Park

Information is subject to change as instructors finalize course content and syllabi.