FOR PARENTS & TEAMS
PARENT HANDBOOK
Our handbook, Playing the Long Game offers tactical conversation strategies to help you support your athlete’s self-awareness, resilience, and intrinsic motivation.
PRESENTATIONS
We offer live or virtual Q&A sessions to help support the growth and development of athletes. Ask your team’s coach to contact us regarding webinars or Q&A sessions for the whole team.
INTERACTIVE PARENT / ATHLETE WORKSHOPS
Facilitated conversations to enhance the parent/athlete relationship and promote athlete performance and well-being.
TRANSITION TO COLLEGE WORKSHOPS
Tailored Q&A sessions to prepare parents and athletes for the transition to college.
INDIVIDUAL PARENT COACHING
One-on-one sessions to support your role as a parent of an elite or college athlete.
Maureen Breeze
Maureen Breeze is the principal at Cultivage, an executive coaching and corporate training company, and the co-founder of Retreat Reinvent Recharge, an international organization that supports women’s career advancement. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Denver’s Center for Professional Development teaching business leaders some of the strategies discussed in this book. Prior to this work, Maureen served as the Senior V.P. for LifeBound, an education consulting firm, where she developed academic coaching programs to help universities and colleges support students’ success. She presented her methodology at conferences throughout the U.S. and in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, China, and Mexico. Maureen’s first career was as a dancer and choreographer, and she continues to coach dancers launching their professional careers. She received her undergraduate degree in International Management and Mathematics from Claremont McKenna College, and studied dance performance & choreography in graduate school at U.C.L.A. Maureen is also the parent of a collegiate athlete.
Suzanne B. Schimmel, Ph.D.
Suzanne B. Schimmel, Ph.D. received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Yale University and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Boston University. She has a private practice in Denver, Colorado, working with athletes at the collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels. Within that domain, Sue focuses on mental health issues, retirement from sport and addictions treatment. She has been consulting to a Division I men’s sports team since 2017. More recently, she helped create programming for the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee mental health team for the transition out of sport. Sue has produced informational videos on relationship issues for the health and wellness committee of the National Hockey League Players Association, and has provided therapy for athletes from the National Hockey League and Major League Soccer for over 15 years. Sue is also the parent of a college athlete.
The CAP Project
Five years ago, Dr. Sue Schimmel and Maureen Breeze were asked to provide programming for parents of college athletes at a top-performing D1 institution. As professionals in their distinct fields and parents of college athletes themselves, they resonated with the challenges inherent in coach-athlete-parent relationships. Seeing a gap in resources, they created unique programs to serve institutions and wrote their book, Playing the Long Game: A Handbook for Parenting Elite and College Athletes, to help parents support their athlete’s performance and well-being.
The CAP Project helps coaches navigate challenges that occur when parent-athlete-coach dynamics adversely impact individual athletes or the team culture. Through customized evidence-based strategies, we help you create a parent culture that supports your team's values and athletes.
The CAP Project helps parents effectively support their athletes to achieve peak performance in sports and life, while strengthening the parent-athlete relationship. Sue and Maureen help parents support their athletes' well-being and attainment of life skills necessary for high achievement in sports and life.
FOR COACHES & TEAMS
PARENT HANDBOOK
Our handbook for parents, Playing the Long Game, offers strategies for navigating the fine line between supporting athletes and fostering the autonomy they need for peak performance.
PRESENTATIONS
We offer webinars and Q&A sessions for teams, parents, and coaches to facilitate conversations around goal-setting, best practices for supporting athletes, and building parent culture. Available virtually or in-person.
COACH / TEAM CONSULTATIONS
We introduce effective strategies and protocols to optimize coach-athlete-parent relationships, tailored to your team.