Dr. Kat Longshore, Ph.D.

Dr. Kat Longshore is the director of the Performance Psychology Program at the United States Military Academy in the Center for Enhanced Performance. She joined the center in May 2020 as a performance enhancement specialist and became director in February 2023.

Longshore works with cadets on mental readiness to perform at their best in academics, physical education, military training, leadership, and character development. She also supports several Division I athletics teams. She is course director for PL360: Psychology of Elite Performance and the CEP’s 10-lesson RS104: Mental Skills for Cadet Success course.

She earned a bachelor of science in psychology, with honors, from Lafayette College in 2007, where she was a four-year Division I softball player. She earned a master’s in sport sciences, sport psychology pathway, from Brunel University in West London, U.K., in 2009 and completed the British Association of Sport & Exercise Sciences three-year practitioner accreditation in 2012. Longshore earned her Ph.D. in psychology of human movement from Temple University in 2015, focusing on developing, implementing, and assessing mindfulness training for coaches.

Before joining CEP, Longshore worked as a private practitioner through her Mental Performance Coaching practice and served as an assistant professor in Lafayette College’s psychology department, teaching sport psychology, design and analysis, and quantitative methods. She lives in Highland Falls, New York, and enjoys hiking and being outdoors.