Finally, when I was about 12, my neighbor Margaret Pursell started taking me to the barn where she kept her horse. It was a boarding barn and I would do just about anything for people to allow me to ride their horse!

I started taking lessons with a former event rider Elizabeth McClarin. Soon after, I joined the Iron Bridge Pony Club and started learning everything there is to know about horses and caring for them. I would work at the farm on weekends and basically spent all day in the summer there… every kid’s dream right?!

Circa 1999, I became a working student of Nataile Hollis at Waters Edge Farm. After a few years competing with her, I took a job in Leesburg, VA working at a TB breeding farm helping get the babies ready for high-end yearling sales.

By 2002, I wanted to get back into riding so I took a job working for 5* eventer, Sharon White. I was a part of her team doing everything imaginable… from grooming to competing to riding client horses!

Eventually, I started my own training and sales barn but when the market crashed in 2008, I turned to freelancing and traveling to help anyone that needed equestrian services.

After getting married and moving to Georgia, in 2014, I started caring for a 100 acre farm, as well as riding and helping with the Bear Creek Hounds. 

After getting relocated to Botswana Africa in 2018, I rode for the Inter-Africa Cup on the Show Jumping and Dressage team, achieving individual Silver in Jumping and Team Gold in Show Jumping, and Team Bronze in Dressage.

Africa is also where I got started with MagnaWave, using this technology to help horses and riders.