
PUTTING PLAYERS, COACHES, PARENTS, AND SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS IN THE BEST POSITION TO SUCCEED!
DERICK SNELL 763-244-9442
NUMBERWONFAN@HOTMAIL.COM
***We are currently updating our website to serve our customers better***
New Website set to launch November 7th, 2026

Welcome to Living the Dream Sports! Since our establishment in 2012, we've been dedicated to empowering athletes, coaches, parents, and sports organizations. Originally starting as a club baseball program focused on physical training, we have evolved to emphasize mental performance training, leveraging the expertise of our owner, Derick Snell, who's playing and coaching career spans 4 decades. As a player Derick had an innate ability to think quickly on the field and mat to gain advantages over his opponents. As a coach, Derick enjoys the chess match that happens during competitions and always looks for opportunities to teach his student athletes about the mental side of sports. Players who are able to know themselves and are able stay within their strengths and look to expose their opponents' weaknesses, patterns and tendencies are the players that have such a distinct advantage even if they lack the physical skills sets of their opponents. Living the Dream Sports has helped players at the youth, high school, college and professional level achieve their peak performances.
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Derick's unique approach to mental performance classroom training is what sets Living the Dream Sports apart from other organizations that attempt to do mental performance training. Derick's educational background and job experience in chemical dependency directly shaped this new approach to mental performance/sports psychology training. Derick believes in this method so much in 2024 he was able to get his business model of intellectual property copyrighted to protect this amazing opportunity for athletes to grow and learn together in what Derick calls "Sports Therapy". Living the Dream Sports offers not only athlete mental performance training, but also does coach and parent educational mental performance training as well. With over 100 total courses, some general and some very sports specific, there isn't an area of mental performance or sports psychology training that Derick hasn't attempted. Adapting to today's culture and world has allowed the growth of classes that Living the Dream Sports can offer. Everything from overcoming the fear of failure and pursuit of perfection to learning what types of goals and goal setting is, to motivation, pressure, and learning techniques such as mental imagery, breathing and emotional regulation, Living the Dream Sports has you covered. Most classes and seminars are offered as an educational, development, theory or techniques based mental performance opportunity.
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Whether you are an athlete, coach or a parent there are certain aspects that directly affect the way athletes perform. Learning how to navigate some of the toughest barriers these athletes face can help put them and you in the driver's seat. So hop on the Living the Dreams Sports bandwagon and let's get you started down the proverbial road to success.
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Mission
Living The Dream Sports mission statement is simple: to put athletes, coaches, parents, and organizations in the best position(s) to succeed.
Vision
Cognitive coaching/Sports Psychology is becoming an essential tool for those athletes, teams, coaches and organizations to help reach their peak performance.
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What can sports psychology do for you?
*Enhance confidence in athletes
*Teach athletes how to identify
Fear of Failure
Pursuit of Perfection
Pressure and where it comes from
Motivation
Strengths and Weaknesses
Goal Setting
Stressors of the game
Communication
How to deal with success
*Teach techniques like:
Mental imagery
Breathing/Calming Exercises
Focus Strategies
Time management
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ATHLETES
We offer many different services to help athletes reach their true full competitive potential. Athletes spend 95+% of their time and money on physical skill set training while they leave so much on the field/court/mat/pool/track due to not working on the mental performance training aspects. Living The Dream Sports empowers athletes to take that next step in their training with the mental performance side and elevate their level of competition while instilling highly effective habits that are reflected of a championship mindset.

COACHES AND SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS
Coaches and Sports Organizations are very influential into an athlete's experience within their sports. Many coaches and sports organizations don't know where to turn for resources for mental performance training. Aspects like team roles and dynamics, coaching styles, athlete personalities, team cohesion, building culture, delivering on expectations and providing opportunities to learn techniques that can help the athletes with fears, perfectionism, daily struggles, social media, emotional regulation, breathing techniques are just some of the ways Living The Dream Sports can help coaches and sports organizations.

PARENTS
Being a parent of an athlete isn't always just about being in the stands cheering on your favorite athlete. Being a parent means that there are always going to be certain challenges you will face with not only with your athlete, but yourself as well. Being a parent you will go through many different emotions, challenges, and thought processes as your athlete climbs their respective sports(s) ladder. Often times being a parent is a thankless job that at time might feel like there are no benefits. The late nights, the weekend travels, having to take off of work, volunteer or fundraising mandates, scheduling with other children and family members. It gets to be a lot. Living The Dream Sports provides some relieve and a very important support platform for parents to lean on