Long Listed Drivers
Drivers! Please submit your name, ponies name, a few sentences about yourself, and a picture to: info@ponyteamusa.com Otherwise, I'll be tempted to make something up.
Single Pony
Meghan Benge
Magnolia, TX
Pony: Rupert (Welsh X)
Meghan is a photo major/graphic design minor at Savannah College of Art and Design, and is also the designer of this website. Meghan won Individual Gold and Team Silver at the 2008 World Championships for Drivers with Disabilites.
VANCE COULTHARD AIKEN SC
VIVIAN CREIGH SPRINGFIELD VT
Sherri Dolan
Milford NJ
Pony: Smoke, Hackney/Shetland cross.
At 12.3 HH Smoke is the smallest single pony in the division, (but he has a big heart). Smoke and I moved up to the Advanced level fall of 2007. We came in 3rd at Gladstone CDE (2007), Fair Hill Int (2007), and Live Oak Int (2008) and 1st at Black Prong and Southern Pines CDE (2008). I work as a Product Manager for a Biopharmaceutical supply company.
Dale Govus
Forest City, NC
Pony: Lemontree Magic Illusion - 1995 reg. Welsh Cob gelding - Izzy and I have been competing together for 8 yrs and plan a couple more! Competing Int and Adv for the last two years from the Laurels down to Live Oak, winning Katydid Adv 2008 - the same show we made our move to Adv in 2006. I teach Adult High School and GED in the evenings so we can play in the daylight!
STERLING GRABURN BONIFAY FL
Sandra Green
Indianapolis, IN
SYBIL HUMPHREYS RAPIDAN VA
Marilea "Pixie" Keating
Aiken, SC
Pony: Harley
Harley is a pint sized American Paint Horse who had 4 foals before beginning her career as a driving pony.
MARY MOTT-KOCSIS BAPTISTOWN NJ
Samantha Orem
Sumpterville, FL
Pony: Admiral John (Haflinger)
Samantha is a Junior Driver and graduates from High School this year. With the help of her 'gator, Joanne McCallum, and Admiral John, Sam won the marathon at The Laurels ('07), Katydid ('07), Nature Coast and Live Oak ('08).
SUSAN ROGERS PROCTORSVILLE VT
Sara Schmitt
Glen Gardner, NJ
Sara competed in both the 2003 & 2005 World Championship teams with her Morgan, High Country Doc. Sara and Doc were the highest placing USA team member at the 2003 World Championships, & 2005 National Champions, and winners at Live Oak, Garden State, Sunshine State and Gladstone. Sara's current partner is Batman, a Morgan/Welsh cross. They were 2007 USEF National Combined Driving Single Pony Champions.
Suzy Stafford
Bear, DE
Pony: Courage to Lead (Katy), Morgan mare.
Stafford is a full time trainer, instructor and clinician based in Unionville, PA. She is a two time national champion with Beverly Lesher's, Katy. and was the Individual Gold medalist in the 2005 World Pony Championships in England, driving Sybil Humphreys' Welsh Cob, Bouncer and a member of the 2007 Bronze medal World Championship team in Denmark.
COLLEEN SULLIVAN MORRISTON FL
Rochelle Temple
Powhatan, VA
Pony: LR Ami B-Line AKA "Cooper" (Morgan)
Shelly teaches and trains at her Catalyst Driving Center, with the help of her husband/navigator, Fran Doto. They were members of the 2007 Team in Denmark, and won Live Oak, Garden State and were second at Sunshine State in 2007. They were National Champions in 2006 and received the USEF Horse of the Year award in their division in 2006 and 2007. Shelly is a USEF and ADS Judge in Combined Driving and Driven Dressage.
Tasha Wilkie
Paso Robles, CA
Pony: Princeton (Welsh/Arab)
While we don't have many opportunities for Advanced out here in the West, I am thrilled and honored to even be LISTED amongst these incredible ponies and drivers! My wonderful pony is Princeton who I've raised since birth. We have learned everything together and love the sport of combined driving!
Pair Pony
Miranda Cadwell
Southern Pines, NC
Ponies: Toby (Welsh), Rambo (Hanoverian), Taz (Welsh), Kabam (Hanoverian)
Miranda is the reigning World Champion Pair Pony Driver, which she won with Toby, Taz and Rambo. Randy is starting a new pony, Kabam.
Jennifer Matheson
Aiken SC
Ponies: Danyloo, Hemmingway, Topper
Breed: German Riding Ponies
Owner: Katrina Becker, Aiken SC
Jennifer Matheson switched from Single Pony to Pair Pony in 2008. As a single driver, Jennifer represented Canada at the 2005 World Championships and then changed her citizenship to the USA & was the alternate for the US Team in 2007. Starting with young ponies, Jennifer and navigator, Annika Feldt of Sweden, have taken the fast track in preparation for the 2009 Championships, finishing 2nd at Southern Pines & 2nd at Katydid CDE in 2008. An injury to Danyloo in the winter of 2008 caused Team Matheson to rethink their journey to the 2009 World Championships, but expect to be ready for the National Championships in October. Jennifer also served as the Assistant Chef D’Equipe for the U.S. Team at both the World Singles Championships and the World Four-in-Hand Championships in 2008.
Tracey Morgan
Beallsville, MD
Ponies: Lizwell Gambling Queen (Maude), SingleTree Tabitha Twitchit (Tabby), Farnley Coquette (Coco) and Gaylen Romeo (Joe)
My Dartmoor ponies really enjoy CDE's! Only 12.2h they have big personalities and tremendous work ethic. We have won 5 USEF National Pony Pair Championships. I have retired from the business world to breed and train the ponies full time. Kenny (Cox) takes time off from his Home Inspection Company to navigate. We have enjoyed being a member of the Pony Team USA at all three Pony World Championships traveling to Austria in 2003, England in 2005 and Denmark in 2007.
Four-in-Hand Pony
LAURIE ASTEGIANO
Elizabeth Keathley
Woodbury, TN
Ponies: Alvis, Oden, Frits, Glynhafan Hercules. All Welsh ponies.
Elizabeth Keathley is the owner of the Cannon Carriage Driving Center at Valhalla farms in Woodbury, Tennessee
She won the Lexington CDE and Katydid (2007), 2nd at Sunshine State CDE and 3rd at Live Oak CDE (2008).
MUNRO RUSSELL SOUTHERN PINES NC
Allison Stroud
West Grove,PA
Ponies: Benjamin, Kilkerin Edward, Cong Donal, Mosby, Sir Patrick, Mystic, Amigo Vespucci, With Flair, Starbuck
These are the ponies I have aimed for Germany in 2009. They are the current national and were fourth in the pony worlds in 2008. We have fun at home driving as a four, single, pair, tandem, random, six, and even sometimes all eight. They travel and compete all over the eastern seaboard and maybe we will make out west one summer. Dee Aldrich, Sissy Spruance, Dirk Van Beckhoven all help make this team a lot of fun and, with hard work, successful in competition.
Kathleen Whaley
Southern Pines, NC
Ponies: Tux, Spats, Cufflinks, Cumberbund, Magic and Snowy (Welsh Section Bs)
Katie has represented the US in 2003 with a four and 2005 with a pair finishing 7th in the marathon at Catton Park.
Esther "Boots" Wright
Ocala, FL
Ponies: Blunder, of uncertain lineage; Danny, Welsh Section C; Dover, German Riding Pony; Dusty, German Riding Pony; Oak, Welsh Section C.
