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Robert Ridland

Hometown: Irvine, Calif. Birthday: 11/7/1950 Sport/Disciplines: Jumping

The show jumping community always knew Robert Ridland as a great rider, but now they also see him as the brilliant, strategic mind guiding the NetJets Show Jumping team to unprecedented success. Ridland brings several decades of international experience to the U.S. Show Jumping. As an athlete he competed in the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games and won several grand prix competitions throughout his riding career. Ridland has been extensively involved in the governance of the sport, including several terms as a board member of US Equestrian and the United States Equestrian Team Foundation.


Competitor

Bliss Heers

Hometown: Las Vegas, Nev. Birthday: 8/7/1987 Sport/Disciplines: Jumping

Bliss Heers is a jumping athlete from the West Coast, where she operates Bridgeside Farms LLC. Since 2015, Heers has split her time between North America and Europe. Her career highlights include a victory in the $50,000 Adequan® WEF Challenge Cup Round 4 CSI4* in February of 2021 and a win in the Spruce Meadows Continental CSI5* in 2019 with Antidote de Mars. She made her NetJets® U.S. Jumping Team debut at the 2021 FEI Jumping Nations Cup Wellington CSIO4*, where the team claimed top honors.


Competitor

Lillie Keenan

Hometown: New York, N.Y. Birthday: 10/4/1996 Sport/Disciplines: Jumping

Lillie Keenan had a phenomenal youth career, winning team gold at the FEI North American Youth Championship in 2012 and both team and individual gold in 2013. She was also a standout equitation rider and won numerous titles in that division, including the USEF Hunter Seat Medal Finals and ASPCA Maclay Finals in 2013. Since then, Keenan has represented the U.S. on several Nations Cups teams, including as a member of the team that took bronze at the FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Final in Barcelona in 2016. She was also part of the winning team at Spruce Meadows in 2017 aboard Fibonacci 17. She piloted Super Sox as part of the all-female team that won the Aga Khan Cup at the Dublin Horse Show in 2017.


Competitor

Brian Moggre

Hometown: Flower Mound, Texas Birthday: 8/7/2001 Sport/Disciplines: Jumping

Brian Moggre began riding at a young age and found success early in his junior career, including a junior individual bronze medal at the 2016 FEI North American Youth Championships, a young rider team gold medal at the 2017 NAYC, and team gold medals in 2017 and 2018 at the USEF Junior Jumper National Championships/Prix des States. In the equitation arena, he was the 2018 Dover Saddlery/USEF Hunter Seat Medal National Champion and ASPCA Maclay Finals Reserve Champion. Moggre’s FEI grand prix wins include the FEI Jumping World Cup qualifiers at Live Oak CSI3*-W and the National Horse Show CSI4*-W with MTM Vivre Le Reve in 2019. Moggre was part of the winning U.S. teams at the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Wellington CSIO4* in 2020 with MTM Vivre Le Reve, as well as in 2021 and 2022 with Balou Du Reventon.


Competitor

Jessica Springsteen

Hometown: Colts Neck, N.J. Birthday: 12/30/1991 Sport/Disciplines: Jumping Olympic Years: 2020

Jessica Springsteen was a member of the silver medal-winning U.S. Jumping Team at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She amassed numerous top results in her successful youth career, capturing the young rider team silver medal and the young rider individual bronze medal at the 2010 North American Youth Championships, along with a win at the 2008 ASPCA Maclay Finals. In recent years, she has been selected to several Nations Cup teams, including the FEI Jumping Nations Cup Wellington CSIO4* and CHIO Aachen teams in 2021 and the FEI Jumping Nations Cup of Knokke Hippique in 2022.