USEA Convention Program

40 officials from three states (Mar yland, Delaware and Pennsylvania), as well as private and public entities are teaming up to upgrade the competition site at Fair Hill in Elkton, Mar yland. Come and hear what is in store for the future! ABCS OF ENTERING A HORSE TRIAL AND YOUR FIRST FEI EVENT Friday, December 8, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Speakers: Mary Coldren & Christina Gray Learn from event secretaries, Mar y Coldren and Christina Gray, about entering events. Topics in this open forum-type session will include how you become entered in an event, what the closing date means, how to select the correct division preference, what makes an entr y complete, how to make a change to an entr y, how to get a refund, and what you need to enter your first FEI event? ORGANIZERS OPEN FORUM Friday, December 8, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 pm. Moderator: Jonathan Elliott Jonathan Elliott of Aspen Farms Horse Trials in Yelm, Washington and the Chair of the USEA Organizers Committee, will host the Organizers Open Forum to inform and discuss all issues big and small facing organizers. COURSE DESIGNERS/ BUILDERS OPEN FORUM Friday, December 8, 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Speakers: Tremaine Cooper & Morgan Rowsell Bring all of your course designing and building questions to the Course Designers/Builders Open Forum to have them answered by the top professionals currently designing and building courses. This seminar will focus on recent developments in frangible technology as well as other key factors relating to the design and building of cross-countr y courses. Discussion will be led by co-chairs of the Course Designers/Builders Committee, Tremaine Cooper and Morgan Rowsell. AMATEUR & ADULT RIDER OPEN FORUM Saturday, December 9, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Moderators: Dawn Robbins & Donna Bottner Adult Rider Committee Co-Chairs Dawn Robbins and Donna Bottner will host the Amateur & Adult Rider Open Forum. This open forum will be much like last year's Town Hall Forum, except focusing on amateur issues. Several Adult Rider coordinators will be discussing their current activities and ideas for improving the sport for the adult rider and the amateur. For the first hour, speakers will touch on amateur issues, each presenting a topic for 5-10 minutes, including topics such as having more amateur divisions, cross-countr y courses and difficulty, getting new amateurs into the sport, the definition of amateur, and keeping down the costs of eventing. Then we will open the floor to discussion for the second hour. We will tr y to come up with action items out of this forum. Please attend, bring your questions, concerns and solutions. We want to hear from you! ORGANIZERS & SECRETARIES: BEST PRACTICES Saturday, December 9, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Speaker: Dawn Benson Dawn Benson will cover the best practices for organizers and secretaries on a number of topics ranging from managing show costs, using Xentr y, handling late entries, cutting travel for officials, equipment contracts and maintenance and volunteer coordination. convention highlights

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