The FEI North American Youth Championships (NAYC) is the premier equestrian competition in North America for children (12-14), pre-junior (14-16), junior (14-18), young riders (16-21), and U25 (16-25). This championship allows youth to compete against their peers in a format similar to that of the Olympic games and other international senior championships. Young equestrians compete for team and individual FEI medals in the Olympic equestrian disciplines of show jumping and dressage.  The competition is run under rules of the FEI (Federation Equestre Internationale), the international governing body for equestrian sport, and is the only FEI championship held annually on this continent.

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Discover Dressage/FEI North American Youth Dressage Championships Presented by USDF

 

Gotham North/FEI North American Youth Jumping Championships Presented by USHJA

Lexington, Ky. - US Equestrian is pleased to announce the athlete-and-horse combinations selected to represent U.S. Jumping at the 2024 FEI Youth Jumping Nations Cup Final to be hosted in Lier, Belgium, from September 12-15, 2024. Both the U.S. Jumping Young Rider Team and U.S. Jumping Junior Team and will be led by Chef d’Equipe Anne Kursinski and Team Leader Erin Keating. The following athletes have been selected to the U.S. Jumping Young Rider Team and are listed in alphabetical order....
The final day of the 2024 Gotham North/FEI North American Youth Jumping Championship, presented by USHJA, saw the crowning of junior and young rider champions on Sunday at Flintfields Horse Park. Both representing a dominant Zone 2 at the 2024 NAYC, Stephanie Garrett (New York, N.Y.) climbed atop the young rider podium, while Clara Propp (New York, N.Y.) claimed the junior gold medal. ©Avery Wallace/US Equestrian Young Rider Individual Final Stephanie Garrett posted a near-perfect week...
Traverse City, Mich. – Competition closed out on Sunday at the 2024 Discover Dressage/FEI North American Youth Dressage Championship presented by USDF with two triple gold medalists emerging in the junior and young rider sections after their exciting freestyle tests. Virginia Woodcock and Mollegardens San-Souci. ©Avery Wallace/US Equestrian FEI NAYC Junior Freestyle Virginia Woodcock (Atlanta, Ga.) and her 2014 Danish Warmblood mare, Mollegardens San-Souci (Sir Donnerhall x Sascha),...

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Dressage4Kids Brings Unlimited Opportunities to Young Riders

by Debbie Elliot | Aug 22, 2024, 5:25 PM

Olympic dressage rider Lendon Gray grew up in Old Town, Maine, as a dedicated member of the Pony Club. While she went on to have a highly successful equestrian career as a rider and trainer, and was inducted into the United States Dressage Federation Hall of Fame in 2011, the broad depth of education about horses that she learned in the Pony Club has always remained important to Gray. It inspired her to launch Dressage4Kids in 1999 after she noticed that many young riders she encountered had...

Coaching for the Team: How a U.S. Dressage Senior Team Member Coaches NAYC Athletes

by Leslie Potter/US Equestrian | Aug 13, 2023, 10:00 PM

Athletes and coaches who have been to the FEI North American Youth Championships (NAYC) often point to the exposure to international team competition as one of the primary benefits of the experience. With limited opportunities for equestrian athletes in the western hemisphere to compete on a team before reaching the senior levels of the sport, NAYC serves as an important steppingstone for young athletes with international aspirations. ©KTB Creative Group Sarah Tubman is a dressage athlete...

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