In December 2024, I became certified in Equine Sports Massage, Kinesiology taping, and Raindrop (essential oils) Therapy. I am currently taking an online class in equine nutrition.

Daily care such as feeding, turn out, stall cleaning. Riding horses under trainer’s guidance. Teaching lessons, creating lesson plans. Teaching children barn safety, basic handling and riding skills. Obtaining vital signs, administering medications.

I began my experience with horses as a young child on my grandfather’s farm. From there, I began showing horses in my local 4H program and continued showing for eight years. After graduating high school, I worked as a veterinary assistant at an equine hospital for a summer. From there, I worked for a nonprofit organization teaching children from low income schools about horses where I built the program from the ground up.

As an equine veterinary assistant, I assisted with collecting stallions, foaling out mares, learned how to give injections/draw blood, wound care, among other skills. I also have leadership experience working as the “Equine Programming Coordinator,” creating classroom curriculum, training staff on the curriculum, directing staff while working with students, gathering materials for lessons, ensuring the safety of both staff and students, and gathering feedback from staff and students to improve.

In 4H, I showed western, english, and some speed events. As an adult, I am still comfortable riding both english and western, going on trails, riding younger/green horses, but only have experience doing flatwork.

I competed for eight years at the 4H level, but have not done any competing outside of that. I would love an opportunity to get back into it!