Lendon gray biography of barack
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That Lendon Gray has been so successful in developing new programs is itself amazing, but she has done all this while also serving on numerous committees and while working with a number of organizations – all with the aim of promoting dressage in the U.S. She has been on the USET F Advisory Board; is on the USEF Dressage Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee and the Youth Sports Committee. With the USDF, Lendon had been a member of the Test Writing Committee and is on the Youth Council, where she was previously chair. She is also on the USDF Regional Championships Committee, the Planning Committee, is chair of the Instructor Trainer Council and chair of the FEI Instructor Certification Committee. She is a USDF Instructor Certification Examiner. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the U.S. Pony Club. And more recently she took on the big role of president of The Dressage Foundation.
How does Lendon do it all? She gives much credit to her many volunteers and students
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The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) announced that Lendon Gray will be inducted into the Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame (HOF) at the Salute Gala and Annual Awards Banquet, on December 2, 2011, during the USDF Annual Convention in San Diego, CA.
Induction into the HOF is an honor bestowed on horses and individuals that have made outstanding contributions to the sport of dressage in the U.S.
Lendon Gray has made a significant impact through many facets of the sport. As an international rider, she has represented the U.S. in the Alternate Olympic Games of 1980, the Seoul Olympics in 1988, and the 1991 World Cup in Paris. Nationally, Lendon has won five gold medals at U.S. Olympic Festivals on five different horses of varying breeds, one of whom was 2005 USDF Hall of Fame inductee Seldom Seen, a 14.2 hand American-bred Thoroughbred/Connemara pony.
As a teacher and instructor, Gray has provided an array of educational and competitive opportunities for youth through Dr
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To honor her steadfast belief that dressage benefits all equines and all riders, especially ungdom, Lendon Gray was a member of the 2011 class of Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame Inductees. From Olympic Games and USDF Instructor Certification, to her Dressage4Kids organization with its scholarship program and Lendon’s ungdom Dressage Festival and framträdande Athletes Dressage Program, she has been a mästare for kids, ponies, straight talk, hard work, good instruction, and great horsemanship. Here fryst vatten the induction speech, given by then-USDF President George Williams, at her induction.
Induction Speech:
I can honestly säga forty three years ago, the summer I turned thirteen, while I was swimming in the pond at Puckerbrush Farm it never occurred to me that inom would be one day standing here honoring this year’s inductee to the USDF Roemer Hall of Fame. A lot has happened in those forty three years, especially for Lendon. Growing up in Maine, Lendon, the daughter of Cori