University of Illinois Equestrian Team Coach

University of Illinois Equestrian Team Coach

2002-2005

Reserve High Point Regional Champions 2002-2003
3rd place High point Regional Champions 2003-2004
3rd place High Point Regional Champions 2004-2005
Greatest number of Regional qualifiers per school from 2003-2005
Greatest number of Zones qualifiers in Illini Equestrian History
Three national scholarship winners 2003-2005
The Intercollegiate Horse Show Association promotes competition through 6 levels of Western Riding (Beginner through Open/Reining) and 8 Levels of Hunter Seat Riding (Beginner through Medal/Maclay)

The University of Illinois Equestrian Team competes against 12 other universities and colleges located throughout Illinois and Indiana: Ball State University, Butler University, Earlham College, Indiana University, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Parkland College, Purdue University, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Taylor University, University of Illinois, University of Indianapolis, and University of Notre Dame.

Stanton Stables Collaboration

As the University of Illinois Equestrian Team Coach, I collaborated with Stanton Stables http://www.stantonstables.com/ to teach lessons from 2003-2005. Stanton Stables at the time stood the leading APHA Sire Zippin and ran a therapeutic riding program.

Bonnie Stanton is the strongest business woman that I have ever met. I owe a lot of my perfectionism, interpersonal business skills, and desire to be a professional in the horse world to her. As their head riding instructor, over the course of 2 years, I taught over 100 regular students from pre-school through retirement age.

I received the greatest education from my lesson horses who literally had been searched out and found from all over the United States. My lesson horses had some amazing resumes: hundreds of breed association points and championships, former medalist jumpers, and even a Reserve Champion Western Pleasure Congress winner. My co-workers were trustworthy and talented. I literally watched them work for hundreds of hours. They taught me more about horse movement, balance, and the physics of ridings and instructing than I thought possible. Thank you to my lesson horses who were the best teachers I've ever had: Dewey, Kitty, Boots, Dixie, Foxy, Kayti, Toes, Dice, Zena, Annie, Benny, Merlin, Minnie, Luke.