Amy Baltzell

Clinical Assistant Professor of Education
BA, Wesleyan University; EdM, EdD, Boston University

Dr. Amy Baltzell is the Coordinator of the Sport Psychology Specialization and a faculty member of the Counseling program. Dr. Baltzell’s research and teaching interests are in areas of performance enhancement, coping, and character in sport, as well as positive psychology. She teaches graduate courses in applied sport psychology, positive psychology, and values in sport. Dr. Baltzell has been involved in sport psychology from a number of perspectives, as a sport participant, collegiate rowing coach, educator, consultant, licensed sport psychologist, and as an Olympic and professional athlete. She was a member of the 1989–1991 U.S. National Rowing Teams, the 1992 Olympic Rowing Team, and the 1995 America’s Cup All-Women’s Sailing Team. She is a contributing author to the books Whose Game Is It, Anyway?: A guide to helping your child get the most from sports, organized by age and stage (2006), Character and Coaching: Building Virtue in Athletic Programs (2001), and a co-author of the chapter “Arousal and Performance” in the Handbook of Sport Psychology (2001). During the past ten years, she has provided sport psychology educational and consulting services to teams, individual athletes, and coaches, and has applied the concepts, in a consulting role, to teachers and school administrators. For the past four years she has served as a speaker and scholar-in-residence—in the summer Teacher Academies—for the Center for the Advancement of Ethics & Character (CAEC).