Wednesday, August 29, 2012

OPENING CEREMONIES ARE UPON US!!


OPENING CEREMONIES TODAY - TEAM TESTS BEGIN TOMORROW!!!!

Please see the Chronicle article below for a wonderful review of our US team & a list of their competition schedule.  
August 28, 2012

Meet The U.S. Para- Dressage Team

U.S. Equestrian Federation High Performance Director of Para-Equestrian Pam Lane congratulated the team for the 2012 Paralympics including (from left): Dale Dedrick, Donna Ponessa, Jonathan Wentz and Becca Hart. Photo by Lindsay McCall.

















Still have Olympic fever? Not to worry, the 2012 London Paralympics kick off today, Aug. 29, with the Opening Ceremonies. Para-dressage starts Aug. 30 with the Grade II and Grade Ib team tests, and the competition runs through Sept. 4. You can find a full schedule of the events on theLondon 2012 website.
Sixteen countries—Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Canada, the United States, the Netherlands, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Belgium, South Africa, Australia, France, Singapore, Mexico and Norway—will send teams to London. Eleven other countries also earned invitations to send individual competitors.
The U.S. riders spent a week training with Chef d’Equipe Missy Ransehousen at USET Headquarters in Gladstone, N.J., before heading to London. FULL ARTICLE

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