Juniors/Young Riders

Scholarship Recipient Isabella Rodwig
When I was 12 years old, I attended my first dressage show (as a spectator), and I saw Mrs. Vicky Busch riding a beautiful rendition of a Fourth Level test. I turned to my parents and said, “I want to do that!” I have admired dressage ever since. The way those high level riders can make their horses perform incredible movements with only the nudge of a leg or the tickling of a rein fascinates me.

By Sarah English
4-H is all about leading, achieving, succeeding, and making the best better.  Never have these themes been more alive than at this year’s Southern Regional 4-H Horse Championships in Perry, Georgia.  Though I’ve been involved with 4-H for a few years now, this was my first time getting to fully experience the event I had heard so much about.  It was a week I will always remember, and I am thankful to everyone who made it possible.

By Alex Varsico Whoever said that high school years are the best years of our lives obviously didn’t go to college. At least, that’s my opinion after attending St. Andrews University in Laurinburg, North Carolina for the past two semesters. It is almost inconceivable for me to write about completing my freshman year in college, working my way towards a double major in Equine Business and Communications and riding on two intercollegiate equestrian teams within the St. Andrews Equestrian Program. Could it be that over a year ago I was receiving my Senior Award at the SEDA banquet?