Youth/Collegiate News
Team USA Members Announced for 2016 Youth World Cup
The 20th running of the American Quarter Horse Youth World Cup will be held June 23-July 3 in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. Every two years, American Quarter Horse youth riders have the chance to vie for international fame at the American Quarter Horse Youth World Cup. At the 2016 Youth World Cup in Tamworth, New South Wales, 13 teams of riders from across the globe will compete June 23 - July 3 for the chance to take gold medals back to their home coun- tries.
Five youth members and a coach or manager make up the teams from each country. American Quarter Horse Youth Association mem- bers representing their home countries will take part in 11 days of ed- ucational seminars, specific discipline clinics, leadership training and
competition. Five additional youth from each country also are invited by each international affiliate to attend the education and leadership portion of the week’s events. The 2016 Team USA members are: • Rider: Austria Arnold, Terrell, TX • Rider: Calley Huston, Argyle, TX • Rider: Ellexxah Maxwell, West Mansfield, OH • Rider: Brock Murphy, Jackson, MO • Rider: Haley Riddle, Gainesville, TX • Leadership/Rider Alternate: Sydney Hoffa, Massillon, OH • Leadership/Rider Alternate: Ann Tebow, Piedmont, OK • Leadership: Teri Dawn Haws, Tooele, UT • Leadership: Madelynne Herlocker, Cedar Rapids, IA • Leadership: Charles Lee, McAllen, TX • Team Manager: Dawn Forest, College Station, TX Throughout the competition, each country will ride for gold medals
in cutting, reining, horsemanship, ranch riding, trail, hunt seat equita- tion, hunter under saddle and showmanship. To level the playing field, competing Youth World Cup team mem- bers do not show their own horses. The host country provides each team’s horses for clinics and competition. The American Quarter Horse Association relies heavily on AQHA Professional Horsemen and owners to supply this event with the best American Quarter Horses around. For more information on the 20th American Quarter Horse Youth World Cup, visit
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Natural Horsemanship Program Adds Instructor Option
University of Montana Western Interim Provost Sylvia Moore announced today the addition of an instruction option to the univer- sity’s natural horsemanship program beginning in Fall 2016. “This new option fulfills a significant need in the equine industry for properly trained and certified equine instruction,” Olie Else, equine studies chair, said. “It is important that we train the upcoming generation to observe and teach safe and effective horsemanship.” “This exciting and important addition
to Montana Western’s natural horsemanship degree greatly strengthens the program as a whole,” Moore said.
The curriculum, approved at the Nov. 19, 2015 Montana Board of Regents meeting, was developed by equine studies instructor Eric Hoffmann with assistance from Moore and Else.
“Montana Western’s Experience One
(X1) program makes us the ideal institution to be teaching our future instructors” Hoffmann said. “Research suggests that hands-on experi- ence translates into knowledge and is the num-
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ber one identified need for learning and becoming an instructor. “For example in one new course, ‘Practical Instruction of Han- dling and Haltering,’ students will go beyond just learning to work with young horses and will develop teach- ing techniques to transfer knowledge and skills to their own students.” Montana Western is the only public four-
year institution offering X1 where students take a single class at a time, three hours each day for three weeks, then move on to the next. The objective is to learn by doing in hands-on, real-world situations.
In developing the program, Montana
Western received feedback from the USEF and AQHA identifying a lack of instructors in the equine industry as a top priority.
“This is a major step forward in the uni-
versity’s efforts to provide quality personnel for the equine industry,” Don Treadway, for- mer executive vice-president of AQHA, said. “The horse aficionado of the future will de- mand professionalism with their equine expe-
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Natural Horseman- ship major Shantelle Roy from Nebraska.
riences and this program will train students to fill that need.”
The university also coordinated program
development with the Certified Horsemanship Association (CHA) to meet the group’s certifi- cation requirements. Montana Western’s natural horsemanship
degree offers option areas in instruction, man- agement, science and psychology.
The program is a partnership with the Montana Center for Horsemanship, a state-of- the-art facility operated as a non-profit guided by board members including local ranchers and members of the community.
For more information about natural horsemanship at Montana Western, call 406- 683-7331 or visit our website at umwestern. edu/programs/
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