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SWITCHING FOCUS
She made her Olympic debut at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, winning a bronze medal in the team competition. Following the Games she gradually began concentrating on training other riders rather than pursuing her own career. "After the Olympics I thought initially that I wanted to go on with a strong momentum and try to get on another team, but my perspective changed. I'm more interested now in helping other people go on that journey. That's been a very different place to be, because I spent the last 20 years trying to get there, and then I got there and went, 'You know what, maybe I don't need to do this again; maybe what I need to do is help other people get there, to be part of their journey'." (usef.org, 27 Aug 2022; sidelinesmagazine.com, 18 Apr 2019)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
In 2019 she became a coach in the US Dressage Coaches Support Network, and in 2020 she was named in the 13-member US Olympic & Paralympic Committee Mental Health Task Force. In the same year she and fellow Olympian Lendon Gray designed 'Dressage4Kids', a programme offering communication tools for coaches and trainers. She has served as equestrian representative for the Athletes Advisory Council, a go-between for the US Olympic Committee [USOC], the athletes and the US Equestrian Federation [USEF], as well as a clinician and official ambassador for Brooke USA, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to improving the welfare of working horses, mules, and donkeys around the world. "With everything I've been able to do, I'm also trying to serve and give back a little bit. It's been good for me, too. I have been exposed to a lot of things I wouldn't have been exposed to if I had only stayed riding." (eurodressage.com, 18 Mar 2021; psdressage.com, 17 Apr 2020; dressage-news.com, 03 Apr 2020; dressagetoday.com, 06 Feb 2020; sidelinesmagazine.com, 18 Apr 2019)
EARLY DAYS
Born in Hawaii, United States of America, she relocated to Texas at age 17 to pursue a career in equestrian. "I knew that I had to be willing to take risks and put myself out of my comfort zone. I knew that I had to go put myself in a position to be around some of the best in the country to figure out where I stood. That was a big reason why I left; I knew I wouldn't have the opportunities or get the type of training I was so craving if I had stayed in my comfort zone in Hawaii." (sidelinesmagazine.com, 18 Apr 2019; podtail.com, 08 Jun 2018) |
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