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Meet your 2018 National Youth Board members- Kaylee!
USPC would like to highlight the National Youth Board Members for the current term. Today we would like to introduce Kaylee. Kaylee is a current member on the National Youth Board and serves as the Social Media Coordinator for NYB. She is an eventer and has been riding since the age of four. Currently she has a retired warmblood, perfect Haflinger pony, and a lovely four year old OTTB. Kaylee is from Mount Vernon, Ohio but currently attends Asbury University in Wilmore, KY. She is a Junior and studying marketing with an emphasis in sales. Joining USPC has been one of the best decisions of her entire life and she…
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Meet your 2018 National Youth Board members- Anna Kate!
USPC would like to highlight the National Youth Board Members for the current term. Today we would like to introduce Anna Kate Johnson. Anna Kate is a C-3 Traditional member from Atlanta Pony Club in the South Region. This is her second term on the National Youth Board. She previously served as the board’s Secretary for 2017. This year she will be a part of the Upper Level and Region Youth Board committees. Anna Kate has been an active member in Pony Club since she joined in 2006. She served as the first Chair for the South Region Youth Board in 2013-2014. She also represented the South Region at National…
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Meet your 2018 National Youth Board members- Devyn!
USPC would like to highlight the National Youth Board Members for the current term. Today we would like to introduce Devyn Hinkle. Devyn is a C-3 Traditional and H-B member of the Redwood Hills Pony Club in the Middle California Region. She is the current Chair of the National Youth Board along with her seat on Board of Governors and Marketing and Communications Committee. For the past 14 years she’s competed in numerous rallies, been to championships in 5 disciplines, assisted her mother in running her regional club, helped organize regional quiz rallies, and participated on the National Youth Congress. Devyn grew up riding in disciplines from Eventing to Games…
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Meet your 2018 National Youth Board members-Lily!
USPC would like to highlight the National Youth Board Members for the current term. Today we would like to introduce Lily Huval. Lily is an incoming member for 2018 National Youth Board, where she holds the position of Treasurer as well as sits on the Upper Level and the Marketing Committees. Lily is a C-3 Traditional and H-B member of Plantation’s Pride Pony Club in the Deep South Region. She is a junior at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette majoring in Marketing and minoring in Management. She teaches mounted and unmounted lessons on a regular basis at her trainer/DC’s barn, as well as in Pony Club meetings. Lily Events…
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Meet your 2018 National Youth Board members-Kavita!
USPC would like to highlight the National Youth Board Members for the current term. Today we would like to introduce Kavita Bushong. Kavita is an incoming member for the 2018 National Youth board. She is on the Service and Pin Promise Committees. Kavita is a C-2 Trad, and H-B from Conestoga Pony Club in the Delmarva Region, and also is involved with unmounted activities in the Old Dominion Region. She is very active in her club and region, and enjoys competing in Tetrathlon. She is a freshman at Virginia Tech majoring in Dairy Science in the accelerated 3+1 Pre-Veterinary track. Her time in Pony Club inspired her to become a…
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Meet your 2018 National Youth Board members- Darby!
USPC would like to highlight the National Youth Board Members for the current term. Today we would like to introduce Darby Murphy. Darby is a second term member for the 2018 National Youth Board. She is the head of the Upper Level Committee and sits on the Visiting Instructor Committee. Darby is a H-B HM, C-2 Traditional, and C-1 Western member from the Great Plains Pony Club in the Rocky Mountain Region. She is a junior at Laramie County Community College in Laramie, Wyoming studying Equine Business Management. Darby’s plan is to graduate with her Associates and then transfer to the University of Wyoming to obtain her Bachelor’s Degree in…
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Meet your 2018 National Youth Board members- Emily!
USPC would like to highlight the National Youth Board Members for the current term. Today we would like to introduce Emily Aschbacher. Emily is an incoming member for 2018 National Youth Board, where she sits as the Secretary and Head of the Marketing Committee for the NYB. Emily is from Sunny Side Pony Club in the MidSouth Region. She has been an active member in Pony Club for nine years, and is currently a C-1 Trad, and C-2 HM. Emily is currently a second semester senior at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana where she is majoring in Strategic Communication with a minor in Journalism. For now, Emily is…
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Chloe DeYoung: Teamwork Superstar
Emma Entwistle, DC of South Wind Pony Club in the Midwest Region sent in our final finalist for the 2017 Flash Teamwork Award. She nominated member, Chloe DeYoung (C-2 HM, C-1 Trad) for the award because of the contributions Chloe has made to their club and region. South Wind Pony Club is barely one year old! To date, we have 28 members ranging from 6 years old to 22 years old. Our club has grown at an exponential speed this year and I am thoroughly grateful for the constant team building, leadership, dedication and passion Chloe DeYoung has repeatedly demonstrated! As such a young club, many of our members are…
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Ashland Tudor, the next Flash
The Flash Teamwork Award is given out annually to a person, equine, club, center, or region who displays as much teamwork as Cathy Aranosian’s club members did when writing about Flash, the horse, for the Breyer model. Abigail Guillemette, C-1HM, Flat, D-3 Traditional member of Monadnock Pony Club in the White Mountain Region shared with us her story of a horse named Ashland Tudor who, like Flash, has had a great impact on many Pony Club members I remember the first time I took Teddy cross country schooling. He refused most every jump, and to avoid going through water, he hopped onto a six inch retaining wall and then leapt…
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Flash Award Contender- The Vet Box
C-2 Traditional member, Hannah Fisher of Pickering Hunt Pony Club in the Eastern Pennsylvania Region sent in this fantastic story about her view of teamwork. This story was a finalist for the Flash Teamwork Award presented each year to a region, club, center, outstanding person, team, or horse to recognize the teamwork Pony Club values so highly. Read along as Hannah shares her story: The Vet Box It was the day I was most excited for at the 2017 USPC National Championships in Lexington, Kentucky. It was my first year riding at Champs and it was cross-country day for Beginner Novice Eventing. I was excited for cross country since it…