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TTU Equestrian Center
gains new director The Texas Tech Equestrian
Center gained a new director in February. Kim Lindsey was named the new manager of the facility and brings plenty of practical ranch knowledge with her. Lindsey said she is more than tickled to be here. "I've always kind of helped the
Ranch Horse Team," Lindsey said. "We've had a SHOT show here for several years and have been very successful with that, so I've kind of always been aware of what's been going on out here. I've always been drawn to it, and here I am now." Lindsey acted as the first secretary of the
Stock Horse of Texas Association 15 years ago, and she got her start showing horses in that as- sociation.
"I'd always just rodeoed and so I started with
SHOT and I've been showing horses there ever since," Lindsey said. Lindsey is happy to be at one of the nicest
and biggest horse facilities in the area and plans on putting the Center to good use. "It is a wonderful facility," Lindsey said.
"We have the big indoor arena and it's about 150 feet wide by 200 feet long. We can host any kind of events - rodeos, cuttings, team ropings, barrel races. I mean we can just do pretty much any- thing you want to do right here." "We have a big stall barn that has about 180
stalls in it," Lindsey said. "We have three outdoor arenas, and a covered warm up area and then an- other little outdoor arena." The facility is perfect for student learning
opportunities. A recent voluntary clean up day yielded around 50 students who were excited to get the place cleaned up. That was a very en- couraging sign for expanding the Texas Tech
family. "The goal is to educate students," Lindsey
said. "And what we would like to see and what we've started is to bring all of the students under different disciplines, meaning if they're on the Rodeo Team, the Equestrian Team, the Ranch Horse Team, the Judging, Therapeutic, if we could bring them all together and make one big happy family, that's what we'd like to try to do." Lindsey has set a goal to get more commu-
nity involvement, which she feels is a vital part of a successful Equestrian Center. "We would like to get the community in-
volved with us, and maybe some of the big ranches around," Lindsey said. "There are lots of large ranches around us, and we'd like to see if we could get them interested in what we're doing here." The Equestrian Center will host a number of
events in the coming months, including judging contests, horse shows, and clinics. w
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