Scholarship News

We are happy to announce the winner of the 2008 scholarship is 15 year old Lilly Johnson from Hinesburg, Vermont. Lilly is trained by Tara Valade, and shows in Children's High Jumpers and is starting the Medal classes this year.

Our 2008 working student is 15 year old Kat Barkema from Warrenton, Virginia. Kat trains with Jonelle Mullen and Kat rides in the Big Eq. and the hunter division.

Past winners have great success

We are very pleased to say that our Scholarship winners have been very successful this season and in season's past. 

2007-Karli Postel from Newbury Park, California continues to show in California. Matias Bayas-Erazo from Quito, Ecuador is showing with great success in the jumpers in his home country. Matias will return to WEF for two weeks to take lessons.

2006- Scholarship winner Emily Martin is spending the 2008 winter season showing at WEF, training with Missy Clark. Last October, Emily placed 9th out of 233 at the New England Equitation Finals on a last minute borrowed mount, as Emily's horse was injured.  Zazou Hoffman, won Zone 2 regional Maclay finals and placed 5th at the Medal Finals.  She was invited to participate in a clinic given by George Morris, chef d'Equipe of our Nations Cup Team.  Zazou also competed at WEF during the 2007 season, winning two equitation classes, qualifying her to participate in the Ronnie Mutch Equitation Classic.  Zazou has also  been writing a regular column "On Course with Zazou Hoffman" for Riding Magazine.  Here's a link to an article that Zazou wrote about her experience with George Morris:   http://www.ridingmagazine.com/riding_onlinemag/rm_article_3_07_ridingadvent_georgemorris.htm  For 2008 Zazou has returned to WEF to train with Missy Clark. For Zazou's other writing you can browse www.ridingmagazine.com .

2005-Cathy Rolfs of Ohio, qualified for the finals of both the Medal and Maclay. She  graduated early from high school so that she could compete at the 2007 WEF season.  She did very well, placing in the top six of many equitation classes.  Cathy is now attending Notre Dame University and spending some weekends this winter showing at WEF.

2004- Lindsey Sceats, from Colorado Springs, Colorado won the Pony Medal at Devon and was Reserve Champion in the USEF Pony Medal Finals (out of 201 entries) in 2004, after her time at WEF.  She later won  Maclay Regional finals for Zone 6. Lindsey is now a freshman at Mt.Holyoke College with Chetie Daniels (see below) and competing on Mt. Holyoke's very successful riding team. Lindsey also showed two weeks at WEF this year during her winter break. 

2003-Chetana Daniels, trained with Geoff Teall after winning her scholarship, qualifying for and competing in the Medal and Maclay of 2004, and then spent 2005 training in Ireland with international showjumper Cian O'Connor.  She competed with Cian and his team in Arezzo, Italy, Hickstead, England, and qualified for and competed in The Dublin Horse Show, Ireland's big international  show held every year at the Royal Dublin Society. She is now a freshman at Mt. Holyoke College concentrating her studies on biology and chemistry, often in the same class with Lindsey Sceats. The three college students, Chetie, Lindsey, and Cathy Rolfs stay in close contact. Her mother, Susan Daniels, the author of The Horse Show Mom's Survival Guide, a humorous and practical guide to the world of "showparenting", continues to write for equestrian magazines. The book, available from the Lyons Press,  is now in its second printing.

Applications for 2009 are now being accepted.