USEA Convention Program

36 former hunter rider, Jan Bergstrom, in a grocery store while returning from the barn late one night wearing boots and breeches and immediately introduced Jan to eventing. He joined the Foreign Service (State Department) and married wife Jan who insisted on a prenup stipulating the Foreign Service would only be a two-year break from her hospital administration career in '90. Five years and three cities in the Foreign Service, he returned to Area VII with two small children and a trade in domestic roles with the added benefit of a small acreage in '95. John turned the acreage into a horse property with a parade of OTTBs. Next, John started a saddle-fitting business and developed his own saddle, the Jeffries JMX. He earned his colors with the Woodbrook Hunt and joined the Adult Riders, having his suggestions turn into volunteer assignments from the world's best AR Coordinator Maggie Rikard. He took on a supposed 1-year stint as AR Coordinator so that said-AR Coordinator could take a sabbatical and that stretched into three years, followed by the Area VII Chairmanship and Chairmanship of the DX Eventing Task Force. In 2018, he purchased Macauliegh Brown, a 4-year-old fresh OTTB who in 2019 ran his first ever event, his first Training level event, and his first Novice Three- Day Event. 2020 will finish the transformation of John and Jan's two feral farm rats into amazing adults and doctors of dentistry and physiotherapy, respectively, their own 30th wedding anniversary, and a busy season developing his wonderful eventing partner. Dan Michaels Dan Michaels has been a USEA member for over ten years and serves the USEA both as a member of the Membership Committee and as the Area IX Treasurer. He and his horse, Lance, have competed up to the Preliminary level. Dan and his wife, Barb, own and operate Rabbit Mountain Equestrian Center, a multi-disciplinary boarding facility near Longmont, Colorado. Dan is a Colorado native and a retired engineer, having worked most of his career for Ball Aerospace on space flight instrumentation. Jennifer Miller Dr. Jennifer Miller is originally from Hudson, Quebec where she grew up fox hunting, eventing, jumping snow banks, and acquiring a Pony Club 'A' rating. After veterinary school she completed an internship with Kent Allen in Gilbert, Arizona then opened her own mobile equine veterinary practice in Cave Creek, Arizona. Her areas of interest include sport horse performance and general good horse health. She has bred, trained, and evented her own horses and is an active competitor at the Training and Preliminary levels. She officiates as an FEI veterinarian and annually volunteers as a veterinarian at the Kentucky Three-Day Event. She has been Canada's Team Veterinarian for eventing, dressage, and para- dressage at various Olympic Games, Pan American Games, and World Equestrian Games since 2002. Darrin Mollett Darrin Mollett was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles for undergraduate and law school. After law school, Darrin clerked for the Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and then joined the law firm of Osborn Maledon PA in Phoenix, Arizona, where she practiced as a corporate attorney for 11 years. Darrin began riding and competing as an adult and has been successfully competing at the FEI levels of eventing since the late 1990s. In 2010, Darrin founded Beverly Equestrian, a multi-disciplinary equestrian center devoted to excellence, education, and horsemanship in The Plains, Virginia. In 2013, Darrin founded a school horse program for a local middle and high school to train out of Beverly and compete as a way to expose young people who otherwise would not have access to horses and riding. In 2014, Darrin was named the hospitality chair for the training session organized at Great Meadow in The Plains, Virginia for the U.S. Eventing Team's final preparatory run before competing at the WEG, and she teamed up

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