Samantha Gilmore is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) with a Master’s in Sport Psychology. At Berkeley’s Cameron Institute, she supports student-athletes and staff in optimizing performance, fostering well-being and enjoyment in sport, and enhancing leadership development. Over her three seasons at Cal, Gilmore has provided mental performance consultation and executive coaching to several teams, including women’s basketball, women’s soccer, baseball, softball, lacrosse, and women’s rowing.
Gilmore began her professional career in baseball, spending five seasons with the New York Mets organization. As the Mental Performance Coordinator, she was an integral member of the High Performance Team, collaborating across disciplines to support individual player development in alignment with organizational goals.
Her consulting approach blends evidence-based methods with practical experience, integrating tools such as DISC Profiling, motivational interviewing, NeuroTracker, biofeedback, and Mindfulness Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE). She aims to strengthen both intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, restore and optimize performance, enhance team cohesion, improve the athlete experience, and develop leaders at the coach and athlete levels.
Originally from outside of Dallas, Texas, Gilmore earned her undergraduate degree from St. Edward’s University in Austin. As a standout collegiate softball player, she received CoSIDA Academic All-America and Heartland Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors, and was named the university’s Outstanding Psychology Major. She went on to earn her Master’s in Sport Psychology from Florida State University, supported in part by the NCAA Women’s Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for Careers in Athletics.
