STRYV helps competitive baseball and softball athletes build confidence, recover from mistakes, stop overthinking, and execute freely when the game gets loud.
Baseball + SoftballBuilt for the sport-specific pressure moments athletes actually face.
Parent TrustedClear, practical coaching that supports the family, not just the athlete.
Neuroscience-InformedPractical tools based on attention, regulation, identity, and habit formation.
Whole-Athlete ToolsBuilt to help athletes carry confidence, composure, and resilience beyond the field.
The parent payoff
More joy. Better performance. More options to keep playing.
Families are not really buying “mental training.” They want their athlete to have fun again, handle pressure, earn opportunities, and carry mental tools into school, sport, business, and life.
For pitchers who spiral after one bad inning.
For hitters who rake in practice and freeze in games.
For athletes who want the next level without losing their love of the game.
For families looking for a selective, fit-based coaching relationship — not a generic program.
Athletes. Real results.
These are the patterns we see most. A parent who didn’t know what else to try. An athlete who had the skill but couldn’t access it. Something shifted.
“My daughter was a starter at 14U. By 16U she was asking to be pulled mid-game. Not because her mechanics changed — they were fine. She just stopped trusting herself the second anything went wrong. After working with STRYV she has a reset she actually uses. She’s pitching in big moments again.”
T.M.
Parent · 16U Fastpitch Pitcher · Raleigh, NC
“I’d go 0-for-4 and the next three games I was already in my head before the first pitch. Couldn’t stop thinking about my mechanics, the scouts, everything at once. STRYV gave me a way to actually reset between at-bats instead of just trying to act like it didn’t bother me. Completely different.”
M.R.
Shortstop / OF · High School Varsity · Wake Forest, NC
“Our son had every college coach you could want at his showcases and he played tight every single time. Physically he’s a D1 kid. Mentally he was playing not to fail. STRYV helped him understand what was actually happening and gave him something real to do about it. Night and day from last fall.”
D.H.
Parent · 17U Shortstop · Cary, NC
Why Families Trust STRYV
Practical tools. Real pressure moments.
STRYV helps athletes train the mental side of competition with the same clarity they bring to skills work: simple language, repeatable routines, and sport-specific tools they can actually use in games.
Practitioner-Built
Founded by Ron Cygnarowicz, an entrepreneur, executive coach, and former competitive athlete, STRYV turns mental performance into a practical system for competitive baseball and softball families.
Outcome-Focused
The goal is not more theory. It is helping athletes enjoy the game again, compete with confidence, recover faster, and keep more doors open.
Parent-Aware
STRYV gives parents language and tools that support confidence without adding pressure, turning the family system into part of the solution.
The STRYV Method™
A simple system for performing freely.
The STRYV Method gives athletes a repeatable way to recognize pressure, calm the body, redirect attention, and compete with a clear assignment. Each step is reinforced between sessions with custom-scripted, multi-sensory visualization audio built around the athlete's specific pressure pattern and next game situation.
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State Control
Condition a composed, confident neurological state that holds under competitive pressure — not just in practice, but in the exact moments that count.
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Thought Direction
Train automatic redirection away from threat-processing and toward execution. Not positive thinking — conditioned interruption of unproductive patterns.
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Response Conditioning
Directly recondition the automatic responses that trigger under pressure — the spiral, the mechanical monitoring, the recovery gap after mistakes.
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Your Identity
Build a stable competitive identity that doesn't depend on recent results, observer opinion, or statistics. The foundation everything else builds on.
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Visualization
Neuroscience-based mental rehearsal that strengthens neural pathways for confident, automatic execution — specific to the athlete's sport, position, and pressure moments.
STRYV Performance Library™
Mental performance help for the moments athletes actually face.
Explore practical guidance for confidence, pressure, slumps, recruiting, parent support, and position-specific challenges in baseball and softball.
Athletes
Confidence, pressure, fear of failure, slumps, overthinking, flow state, and mistake recovery.
Parents
Car ride home, burnout, recruiting pressure, supporting confidence, and helping without adding pressure.
Coaches
Team culture, pressure language, player reset systems, and emotionally intelligent performance coaching.
STRYV is intentionally fit-based. We look for athletes and families who are serious about the work, have a real pressure-performance gap to address, and are ready for practical mental performance coaching.
Free
Pressure Assessment
Identify exactly where pressure breaks execution across six performance buckets. Takes about 8 minutes.
$975 · $1,750
1-on-1 Packages
Foundation (6 sessions) or Season (12 sessions). Every package includes a custom visualization audio recording after each session — built for your athlete, your position, your pressure pattern.
$297 / athlete
Group Cohort
6-week live Zoom cohort with 8 to 10 athletes. Position-specific groups: Pitchers, Hitters, Catchers and Fielders. Next cohort dates via waitlist.
Starting at $950
Team Training
Custom mental performance programs for travel organizations, high school programs, and college teams. Contact for full program scope and pricing.
Free · No Obligation
Evaluation Call
A 20-minute no-cost call to confirm fit before any commitment. STRYV is selective — if it is not the right match, both sides find out early.
Choose Your Track
Built for Baseball & Softball Pressure
Different sports. Different pressure moments. Same need: an athlete who can execute freely when it counts.
Built to help athletes execute freely under pressure.
STRYV was founded by Ron Cygnarowicz after seeing the same pressure patterns show up in athletes, founders, and executives: overthinking, fear of failure, identity pressure, and the inability to reset after mistakes.
Practical Foundation
STRYV blends executive coaching, athletic experience, neuroscience-informed tools and sport-specific modalities into a system athletes can actually use in games.
Built for Families
The work is designed for the real world of competitive baseball and softball, where confidence, joy, recruiting pressure, and next-level opportunity all intersect.
Designed to Scale
STRYV is being built as a coach-delivered mental performance platform supported by trained coaches, performance psychology guidance, and athletes who understand high-level competition.
Inside STRYV
What the work actually looks like.
STRYV is not talk therapy and it's not motivation. Every session is practical, measurable, and built around the athlete's specific pressure pattern.
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Evaluation Call — No Cost
A 30–45 minute conversation to understand the athlete's sport, level, competitive situation, and pressure pattern. For youth athletes, a parent joins. If STRYV isn't the right fit, we'll say so directly and point you somewhere better.
Free
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Pressure Profile Session
Session one maps exactly where pressure disrupts the athlete's execution — body tension, focus loss, confidence collapse, slow reset, or evaluation anxiety. This becomes the foundation for every tool we build.
Session 1
03
Tool Training
Sessions build specific regulation tools — breath-based reset, attention anchoring, pre-pitch/at-bat routines, identity language — customized to the athlete's sport, position, and pressure triggers.
Sessions 2–4
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Competitive Rehearsal
Athletes practice using their tools under simulated pressure — high-leverage counts, bad-inning scenarios, showcase moments, mistake sequences. The goal is automatic execution, not conscious effort.
Sessions 5–8
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Custom Visualization Audio — Every Session
After every session, a personalized guided visualization audio is scripted from the athlete's pressure pattern, position, and upcoming game situation and delivered directly to them. 5 to 7 minutes. They listen 3 to 4 times a week between sessions. This is not a template — it is built for this athlete, this moment, this sport. No other coaching program delivers this as a standard part of every package.
Between Sessions
Pricing
Foundation Package (6 sessions) starts at $975. Season Package (12 sessions) is $1,750. Group Cohorts are $297 per athlete. Team training starts at $950 per session. See full pricing →
Pricing
Clear pricing. No surprises.
Every path starts with a free pressure assessment. If the pattern is a match, a no-cost evaluation call confirms fit before any commitment. Space is intentionally limited.
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Every 1:1 client receives a custom visualization audio recording after each session — scripted from their specific pressure pattern, position, and upcoming game situation. Not a template. Theirs to keep.
Single Session
$185
55 minutes · 1:1 · Zoom
One focused session on a specific pressure moment
Custom visualization audio delivered after session
6-week live Zoom cohort, 8 to 10 athletes per group. Position-specific: Pitchers, Hitters, or Catchers and Fielders. Weekly 60-minute group sessions with custom workbooks. Cohort recordings included. Next cohort dates announced via waitlist.
Custom mental performance programs for travel organizations, high school programs, and college teams. Covers dugout culture, shared pressure language, team reset routines, and position-specific mental game work. Contact for full program pricing.
The STRYV Method as a structured self-guided program. Learn the pressure pattern framework, build your visualization practice, and train the mental side of competition on your own time.
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You are on the list. We will reach out the moment it launches.
All programs begin with a free pressure assessment and no-cost evaluation call. Pricing is confirmed at the time of enrollment. STRYV is fit-based — not every athlete is the right match, and both sides find out before any commitment is made.
STRYV is performance coaching for sport pressure, confidence, routines, and execution. Clinical needs belong with licensed care.
Not Motivation
The goal is not hype. The goal is repeatable regulation, reset, attention, and identity-based execution.
Not Generic
STRYV is built around baseball and softball moments: the circle, box, showcase, dugout, field, and car ride home.
Common Questions
Answers for parents and athletes.
What does STRYV help with?
STRYV helps baseball and softball athletes build confidence, recover faster from mistakes, reduce overthinking, handle showcase and recruiting pressure, and compete more freely when it counts.
Is this sports psychology?
STRYV is practical mental performance coaching, not clinical therapy. No diagnosis, no insurance, no couch. Every session is built around the athlete's specific sport, position, and pressure pattern.
Who is STRYV built for?
Competitive baseball and softball athletes from travel ball through college, parents who want to support without adding pressure, and coaches and teams who want a shared mental performance system.
How much does it cost?
Foundation Package (6 sessions) is $975. Season Package (12 sessions) is $1,750. Group Cohorts are $297 per athlete. Team training starts at $950 per session. The pressure assessment and evaluation call are both free. See full pricing →
How long are sessions?
The intake session is 75 minutes — that is where the pressure pattern map and mental game plan are built. All follow-up sessions are 55 minutes. Sessions are delivered via Zoom and are available nationwide.
What is the group cohort?
A 6-week live Zoom cohort with 8 to 10 athletes. Groups are position-specific: Pitchers, Hitters, or Catchers and Fielders. One 60-minute group session per week plus workbooks. $297 per athlete. Next cohort dates are announced via the waitlist.
What is the visualization audio?
After every 1:1 session, a custom guided visualization audio is scripted from the athlete's pressure pattern and upcoming game situation and delivered to them directly. 5 to 7 minutes. They listen 3 to 4 times per week between sessions. It is built for their sport, position, and moment — not a generic recording.
How should a family start?
Take the free 8-minute pressure assessment first. If the pattern matches what STRYV addresses, apply for a no-cost 20-minute evaluation call. If it is not a fit, you will hear that directly — no obligation, no pressure.
Go STRYV
Help them love the game and rise to the moment.
Go STRYV by starting with the pressure assessment. If the profile is a match, apply for a no-cost evaluation call.
Complete the form below to apply for a no-cost STRYV evaluation call. Space is intentionally limited, and applications are reviewed for fit, readiness, and coaching capacity.
Athlete Name
Age
Level
Sport and Position(s)
Who is completing this form?
Athlete Contact Age Check
Parent / Guardian Name
Parent / Guardian Email
For athletes under 18, STRYV routes follow-up through a parent or guardian. We do not use athlete contact information for marketing.
Your Name and Contact
What are you seeing? Describe briefly.
This is not a purchase. Submitting this form begins the application process. STRYV accepts a limited number of athletes and families at a time. If STRYV is not the right fit, we will say so directly.
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Application Received.
Thank you. Applications are reviewed for fit, readiness, and coaching capacity.
You can also book your no-cost evaluation call now. If the call confirms STRYV is not the right fit, we will say so directly.
We are building a research cohort of competitive baseball and softball athletes. Answer 9 more questions and your athlete may qualify for a no-cost program slot as part of the study.
These answers are used only for research purposes. They do not affect your assessment results.
1. On a scale of 1–10, how much has pressure in competition affected this athlete's enjoyment of the sport? (1 = not at all, 10 = significantly)
2. How would you describe the gap between practice performance and game performance?
Much better in practiceSlightly better in practiceAbout the sameActually better in games
3. What typically breaks down first when this athlete faces pressure?
4. How would you describe the environment after a tough game or poor performance?
Supportive and low-pressureSome tension but manageableOften tense or criticalHighly stressful for the athlete
5. What are the top 2 sources of pressure for this athlete? (select up to 2)
ParentsCoachesPeers / teammatesPersonal standardsScouts / evaluatorsFear of failureStats / outcomes
6. At roughly what age did pressure first visibly affect this athlete's performance?
Under 88–1011–1314–1617 or olderNot sure
7. When this athlete struggles, how do the adults in their life typically respond?
Look for external causesOffer encouragement onlyOffer technical feedbackExpress visible disappointmentStay neutral and process later
8. How much does this athlete's performance affect the mood or stress level of the family?
Not at allSignificantly
9. Has this athlete previously worked with a sports psychologist, mental performance coach, or therapist for sport-related issues?
No, neverYes, briefly (1–3 sessions)Yes, ongoingYes, previously but stopped
Thank you. Your responses have been submitted. If your athlete's profile is a strong match for the research cohort, someone from STRYV will follow up directly.
