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A Front Row Seat Behind the Scenes: Najyrc Mentorship A FRONT ROW SEAT BEHIND THE SCENES: NAJYRC MENTORSHIP The 2016 edition of the USEA Young Rider Mentorship Program gave four Young Riders the opportunity to go behind the scenes of the NAJYRC and learn from officials and experienced equine professionals, gaining a better understanding of career paths, skill development, networking and goal setting for their future. Here is a firsthand account of two of their experiences. BY RYAN TYNAN s a participant in the Young Rider Mentorship program Aat the Adequan/FEI North American Junior and Young Rider Championships (NAJYRC), I discovered so much about what goes on behind the scenes in the sport of eventing. My assigned mentor was James Atkinson, the cross-country course designer, but I was also able James Atkinson takes Ryan Tynan around the cross-country course. USEA/LESLIE MINTZ PHOTO to follow and learn from many people involved with different aspects of eventing and the NAJYRC. I met all Riders’ Championships Program, and to spend more time with my mentor, three of the Ground Jury (Gretchen Gina Miles, the 2008 Olympic silver James Atkinson, and his right hand Butts, Polly Ann Huntington and Kellie medalist. I felt like an eventing VIP. All man the course builder, Greg Schlappi. Towers), the Technical Delegates (Tom of this is thanks to the wonderful Vicki James walked me through the courses; Rykewart and Robert Stevenson), Howard-Fine, the heart and soul of the explaining why he put a particular and the show jumping course designer NAJYRC Mentorship Program. jump in that order and location. (Chris Barnard). I sat down and Even though the NAJYRC and James also noted what he thought he talked with the Meg Krueger, Chief Mentorship Program weren’t scheduled would need to change at each jump Operations Officer (COO) of Colorado to start until Tuesday, I arrived at before it was ready to be ridden, from Horse Park and even got to meet Diane Colorado Horse Park early Monday where to place the flowers and décor Pitts, President of USEA. I visited morning. Most of the cross-country to parts of the wood on a jump that with Howard Simpson, who had a coursework would be going on before needed to be rounded out to prevent major hand in the creation of the Young the show even started and I wanted injury in case of impact by a horse. 44 EVENTING USA | JULY/AUGUST | 2016 Vicki Howard-Fine flanked by the Mentorship participants: Katie Canario, Ryan Tynan, Taryn McKee and Louisa Flaig. USEA/LESLIE MINTZ PHOTO James paid particular attention to watched the jogs with the Ground the dressage boxes and listened to the footing throughout the course Jury, then headed out to help with the judges process and score tests. I and he was constantly watering it to cross-country again. Afterwards, I realized that the dressage judges don't make sure by the time a horse ran the attended the meetings of the team really want you to do badly or to give course the footing would be perfect. Chef d’Equipes, the liaisons between low scores. They try to give the best It really opened my eyes that as a competition management and the teams scores possible, and I noticed that course designer, James had to think of riders. These are meetings that as a precision and visible effort to complete about the location and order of jumps, rider or groom, I would not have been a movement scored the highest. I have but also the elements that he couldn't able to attend. I got to see what was always been a little apprehensive to change like the footing and the location going on behind closed doors and hear approach an official at a show, but after of trees and woods. James kept the about any concerns the officials and sitting with the Ground Jury for hours view of the course from the rider’s the Chefs had about events that had watching them go through the dressage as well as the horse’s perspective. In happened during the day and how to tests and getting to ask questions about addition, he explained that on some fix them. We sat and excitedly watched the scores awarded to each competitor, of the jumps he put two sets of flags as they pulled the order of go and then I no longer feel as intimidated. They to help the horse see how long a jump later when they chose the order of were so willing to answer our questions was. Later in conference with the competition for their riders. Sitting in and encouraged us to feel comfortable other girls in the Mentorship Program, those meetings helped me understand in the conversations – it was really Louisa Flaig, Taryn McKee, and Katie that it took a lot of people coming amazing. In the end, getting to talk Canario, we were all surprised to see together to agree and make a change to the other girls in the Mentorship that “the smallest details can change in the competition. For example, it was Program about their experiences the difficulty of the fence and the suggested that the barns open at an was the cherry on top. We each had course,” as Katie put it. These things earlier time to ensure that horses were different perspectives from our day and aren't what a rider would think about prepared for jogs. It was incredible to bounced our ideas off of one another. when walking the course, but James see how many people are involved in When Saturday came around it was had to think about them to ensure that making the NAJYRC run smoothly. finally time to watch the cross-country on Saturday when the riders took to Thursday and Friday included course in action. I got to sit with James the course their horse would be able a crash course in all the things the and two of the other girls that were in to understand the questions they were Ground Jury did on dressage day, and the Mentorship Program, Louisa and being asked. it changed how I look at the Ground Katie,during the cross-country day. The eventing portion of the Jury and dressage judges. During We all picked James’ brain about what NAJYRC started on Wednesday. I the NAJYRC competition, I sat in he thought about each pair as they ran EVENTING USA | JULY/AUGUST | 2016 45 the course, and if they had done well in riding the course as he envisioned. We also helped fix the jumps when the pins were activated by a horse knocking the jump with a little too much force. It was amazing to hear James’ perspective about how the course overall was riding, if it was giving enough people trouble at a difficult fence and if it was riding well. Saturday was a success and a blast. Sunday, the last day that we had in the Mentorship Program, did not disappoint. After saying thank you to the mentors who had allowed for the program to function, we went and walked the show jumping course with the course designer, Chris Barnard. He talked about how he wanted to make the course hard enough that people would drop rails, but that everyone Katie Canario watches and learns from the judge's stand. USEA/LESLIE MINTZ PHOTO would make it through. He encouraged us to move around while watching BY KATIE CANARIO fascinating to see how they can handle the course so that we could see each onday, July 25th, 2016, was a great deal of fit, excited and nervous jump from a different perspective. We a day I had been looking horses from three different disciplines. cringed when rails were dropped and forward to for months. I sent The next morning I again spent time celebrated the clean rounds, too. It was M in my application for the Mentorship with Dana. This time we went to check incredible to watch each horse struggle Program early spring and waited on the cross-country schooling area and at the jumps Chris had highlighted as anxiously to find out if I had been the gallop track to make sure they were difficult and really jump well at others. accepted to participate. The program in order for the riders to use. After As the show came to a close and we officially started on Tuesday afternoon, that, we monitored the eventing arena said goodbye to each other, I knew my but when I got offered the chance to to make sure all of the horses being experience at the NAJYRC would not start early I jumped on it. This fall I worked were being treated with care, have been the same without the great will enter into my junior year of high and that every horse was sound and of girls who shared my passion to learn school. With a lot of important decisions good health. After lunch with my Area more about the sport and the people to be made about my future creeping VI team, two of the other girls doing who run it. As Taryn put it best, “(she) up on me, I knew the Mentorship the Mentorship Program and I headed enjoyed the time we spent as a group Program was something I wanted to out to the cross-country course to help the most. We were able to go work do. The opportunity to see and learn rope off the warm-up ring. We all had with the separate officials and then about different jobs within the equine a good laugh about how long it took come back to the group and share or industry before I have to make any us to get the stakes into the ground compare what we had learned, so we decisions about what comes after high compared to the course builders.
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