USEA Convention Program

17 usea board of governors Screening Trials that were held in Virginia and was a founding member of the Santa Fe Hunt and Pio Pico Horse Trials in San Diego County, California. Janis ser ved as President of the Virginia Dressage Association and was a member of the Board of Directors for 10 years representing VADA at national meetings and functions with the United States Dressage Federation. She became the Executive Director of the Virginia Gold Cup Steeplechase while employed as the general manager of Great Meadow Field Events Center in the Plains, Virginia. Janis has spent her whole life enjoying her horses, which includes fox hunting and breeding Trakehners and Thoroughbreds, as well as competing in the dressage court and on the eventing circuit. Through clinics and under private instruction, Janis' students have successfully competed through the international levels of dressage and the CCI 4* level in eventing. AT-LARGE - DR. JENNIFER MILLER Jennifer is originally from Hudson, Quebec where she grew up fox hunting, eventing, jumping snow banks and acquiring a Pony Club 'A' rating. After veterinar y school she completed an internship with Kent Allen in Gilbert, Arizona then opened her own mobile equine veterinar y 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 Preliminar y levels. She officiates as an eventing FEI veterinarian and annually volunteers as a veterinarian at the Rolex 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. AT-LARGE - DARRIN MOLLETT Darrin 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- disciplinar y 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 other wise 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 preparator y run before competing at the WEG, and she teamed up with David O'Connor to continue to grow Great Meadow. They succeeded in acquiring the first leg of the FEI Nations Cup of eventing to ever run outside of Europe. Darrin and her husband Bill have two children, Brooke and Wil who also play polo and ride. AT-LARGE - DOUG PAYNE Doug is a top level eventer and show jumper and he has been named to and ridden on Nation's Cup Teams for the U.S. Eventing Team with wins both nationally and internationally. He has been profiled in and contributed to countless national publications and media outlets. In 2014, he published his first book, The Problem Horse Repair Manual. It has been a tremendous success immediately garnering a 5-star rating from Amazon.com. In addition, he along with Jim Wofford, produced the acclaimed The Rider's Eye instructional DVD. Officially Doug is a USEF "r" Judge, Technical Delegate and USEA ICP Level III Certified Instructor. He holds a Mechanical

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