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Goals and Objectives
Certification
1. Eventing Coaches Program Committee shall be responsible for the development and
application of the USEA Eventing Coaches Program.
2. The ECP sets standards, monitors results, and continually and proactively upgrades standards
of educating riders, horse training, instruction and coaching for the sport of eventing.
3. The ECP is responsible for certifying Coaches who demonstrate excellence in education at all
levels of the sport. Certification is awarded to those Coaches who promote and produce the
highest standard of skill, horsemanship, horse management, safety and horse welfare.
4. The ECP provides relevant resources and educational opportunities to Coaches and
coaches in preparation for certification, and ongoing provides certified Coaches with the
most current tools and techniques available.
Education
1. The ECP seeks to understand the vast variety of processes by which students and riders
learn, and to develop and adapt educational information such that it may be appropriately
communicated according to individual and specific learning styles.
2. The ECP develops and improves the Coaches' ability to accurately assess both the strengths
and weaknesses of horses and riders, and to correctly evaluate and prescribe exercises and
activities that are appropriate for their current level of skill and development.
3. The ECP enables participating Coaches to work in a collegial and instructive environment that
values and respects continual learning.
4. The ECP identifies and delineates the similarities and differences between teaching and
coaching, and the appropriate application of each.
5. The ECP organizes and supports educational programs for USEA members which embody the
industry's best practices and classical training methodology.
