Christen Shefchunas
Confidence Coach to Female Athletes & Coaches
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Christen Shefchunas started coaching swimming after her career at the University of Tennessee, where she walked on to the Lady Vol SwimTeam as a freshman and walked out four years later as a 4x All-American and captain her junior and senior seasons. After graduating from Tennessee in 1997 with a BA in Psychology, Christen (Christie) Shefchunas spent 2 years coaching at the club level before starting her college coaching career. She was an assistant coach at Michigan State University for 2 years before going to SMU as the women’s assistant for 4 years, where she worked with Olympians, World Champions and NCAA Champions.
In 2006, Christen became the Head Coach at the University of Miami, where she spent 7 seasons. She was hired to rebuild a struggling program, and after a few disappointing seasons of trying to do it “her way”, Coach Christen knew that something had to change, and it started with her. That summer, she surrounded herself with wise mentors that challenged her to stop trying to be what she thought a “head coach” should be, and start using her unique gifts. The next season, she brought “Confidence Coaching” into her program. She met with her athletes individually, and the results were astonishing, producing All Americans, ACC Champions and the first ever ACC Champion and ACC record holder in swimming for the University of Miami. Falling in love with Confidence Coaching and seeing the difference it made in athlete’s lives, Coach Christen started speaking and doing more Confidence Coaching outside the sport of swimming.
In 2013, Coach Christen decided to leave her college coaching career to start speaking full time, as well as Confidence Coach Olympic level and Professional athletes. In 2015 though, she returned to the swimming world for a year, as she helped Team Elite, a group of Olympians and National team members prepare for the 2016 Olympics Games in Rio. Coach Christen has now returned to working with Olympians, professional athletes, college and high school athletes as a Confidence Coach, and speaks to athletes, leaders and coaches across the country. She is a speaker at the LEAD Sports Summit, led by 3x Olympian Kara Lynn Joyce. Christen is the author of Naked Confidence: Revealing Your Whole Truth and Finally Moving Forward and is the creator of Confidence Nuggets .
