Every athlete fights a battle in their own head. Nerves before the first pitch. Fear of failing in front of scouts, coaches and family. The weight of a bad game that follows them home. Nearly every athlete feels it. Very few talk about it.
Prep Baseball, one of North America’s largest youth baseball organizations, and Optimize Mind Performance (OMP), the mental skills training platform used by Team USA, two MLB teams, the Miami Marlins, and programs including Stanford, Duke, USC and The Ohio State, today announced a partnership built to change that.
The partnership gives young athletes direct access to the same mental performance tools relied on at the highest levels of sport, beginning with the athletes and families of Prep Baseball.
The Problem
Today’s young athletes train harder, start earlier and compete under more scrutiny than any generation before them. Showcases, rankings, recruiting and social media have raised the stakes on every at-bat.
Physical development has never been more advanced. Mental development has not kept pace.
For many athletes, there is no natural outlet to talk about anxiety, self-doubt or setbacks, and saying those things out loud is hard.
Too often they work through it alone, or not at all. CSG and OMP believe mental training is not an add-on to athlete development. It is the foundation of it.
What Athletes Get
Through the partnership, athletes gain access to OMP’s platform, built to help them help themselves:
- More than 250 pieces of content from leading sport psychologists, mental performance coaches and PhD-level experts
- Training modules to help build confidence, manage pressure, sharpen focus and respond constructively to setbacks
- Self-tracking tools and AI powered recommendations that help athletes take ownership of their mental game
- Private, on-demand access, so athletes can work through what they are feeling on their own terms
“Every athlete deals with it: anxiety, fear of failure, the battles going on in their own head,” said Sean Duncan, Chief Strategy Officer of Capacity Sports Group and founder of Prep Baseball.
“Athletes can take every lesson, every training session and every athletic test available, but if their mind isn’t right, none of it matters.
"Mental training is as important as physical training, and in many cases more important.
"OMP gives our athletes a proven, private way to work through what they are feeling and build skills that serve them on and off the field.”
“Making high-quality mental skills training accessible to young athletes is something we are passionate about at OMP,” said Jack Preddey, Founder and CEO of OMP.
“We are proud to support elite athletes, and we are equally committed to the next generation. Capacity Sports Group and Prep Baseball are leaders in youth sports, and this partnership puts the tools used by the professionals these players look up to directly in their hands.”
“Whether it’s handling nerves before a tournament, rebuilding confidence after a tough game or locking in on the next pitch, these are skills young players can practice and develop,” Preddey added.
“Our ambition is not just to help them take their game to the next level, but to equip them with skills they carry into school, relationships and life beyond sport.”
Prep Baseball, a Capacity Sports Group company, operates the largest independent scouting infrastructure in amateur baseball, executing more than 1,600 events in 2025 across 47 states, Canada and Taiwan.
