Meet Our Team
Michael McCave
President and founder Michael McCave U.S. ARMY Special Forces (RET.) is a former Green Beret in the Army Special Forces. He has served a number of deployments overseas and has a passion for the cowboy way of life. He believes you can only change through challenges faced in one life. Faith and growth are the foremost important aspect he focuses on while using horses in the program to develop leadership abilities in others. During a High Altitude Low Open—HALO—training exercise he experienced a parachute malfunction which resulted in hitting the ground at over 100mph which resulted in severe trauma which included fractured legs, shattered ankles, broken back, traumatic brain injury, and open book pelvis fracture. He attributes his time working with horses on cattle ranches to his full recovery. Read his full story here.
Sarah McCave
Sarah McCave is the Treasurer and a Director of Warrior’s Mission Ranch. She is a mother, a wife and has been a Speech-Language Pathologist for eleven years. Her interest and passion for horses began a few years ago after her husband Michael had gotten hurt and was attending Therapeutic Riding lessons at a Therapeutic Riding Center in San Diego, CA. Being around horses became something that she looked forward to each week and she pursued how to incorporate horses into her career as a Speech-Language Pathologist. Sarah has currently completed the Level 1 Hippotherapy Treatment Principles course. (Hippotherapy is physical, occupational, or speech and language therapy where assistance is derived from the help of a horse.)
Alice Heimerle
Alice Heimerle is the Secretary of Warrior Mission Ranch. She has 12 years of horsemanship experience and a background in English riding; specifically eventing, combined training and dressage. Additionally, Alice has volunteer experience at a Hippotherapy clinic helping with care of horses, side walking and support riding.