Performance Coach, Sports Academy

This role is for someone who wants to coach student-athletes, not teach them — no curriculum to design, no assignments to grade, no content to present. What matters here is building accountability, establishing trust, and helping someone exceed the limits they've placed on themselves.

Texas Sports Academy operates a virtual program in which student-athletes move through self-paced academic applications while strengthening life skills in parallel with their athletic development. Your cohort meets with you each week in virtual 1:1 sessions and small groups. You set priorities with them, maintain accountability, and detect disengagement early. The tone and effectiveness of your sessions depend entirely on your presence and ability to build trust — the academic content takes care of itself.

The work consists of three core components: coaching sessions that maintain student momentum, proactive responses when data reveals a gap in progress, and facilitated virtual workshops addressing mindset and life skills. This is a remote position based in Texas, requiring quarterly in-person attendance at events in Austin, Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio.

If you've worked with students or athletes in a coaching or mentoring capacity and found the most rewarding moments came from watching someone break through a barrier they thought was fixed, submit your application now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating virtual 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions to clarify priorities, maintain accountability, and sustain high levels of engagement with student-athletes
• Reviewing progress data from learning platforms to spot disengagement or performance gaps before they escalate
• Taking direct action when a student begins to lag — modifying your coaching method, restoring momentum, and guiding recovery
• Facilitating structured virtual workshops focused on mindset, life skills, and personal growth, with active student participation as the key success metric
• Establishing trust with each student-athlete so that accountability discussions feel natural and earned rather than forced

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching curriculum or providing academic instruction — students use self-directed applications; your role centers on engagement and execution
• Creating lesson plans, grading work, or managing course frameworks
• Relying on students to report issues — you analyze the data and take initiative first
• Conducting sessions where students attend but remain disengaged

Performance Coach Key Responsibilities Maintain engagement, academic progress, and life skill development for virtual student-athletes, preparing them for success beyond the classroom environment.

Basic Requirements

• You have experience coaching or mentoring students or athletes — whether paid or on a volunteer basis
• You have led group sessions for students or athletes for a minimum of 6 months
• You have worked in a capacity where you established goals and measured outcomes — and can provide supporting data (such as completion rates, performance improvements, or comparable metrics)
• You are proficient in running virtual sessions using Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams, and have experience tracking participant progress via spreadsheet, LMS, or similar platform
• You have used an AI tool — such as Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity, or a similar application — at least once and can describe the use case
• You are located in Texas and available to attend one in-person event each quarter in Austin, Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio
• You are authorized to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Familiarity with learning management systems (such as Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, or comparable platforms) or tools designed for tracking academic progress
• Ability to tailor your coaching style to varied motivation profiles — recognizing when to apply pressure, when to ease off, and when to simply listen

About Sports Academy Texas Sports Academy is Where Future Champions Excel in Academics and Athletics Traditional schools force student-athletes to choose between excelling in academics or committing to their sport. Texas Sports Academy eliminates that tradeoff.

Their innovative K-8 model, based in Austin, TX, uses AI-driven learning to accelerate academics, allowing students to master core subjects in just two hours a day.

The rest of their day is dedicated to athletic training, skill-building, and personal development - so students excel in both their studies and their sport.

By integrating advanced educational technology with structured sports training, they provide a unique learning experience that builds discipline, leadership, and resilience.

It's academics and athletics in perfect sync. There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with us This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $30 USD/hour, which equates to $60,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help\-and\-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5776-US-Houston-PerformanceCoa