Reddemeade's Instructors

Mary Ann has been riding since a child. She hails from Rhode Island, where she rode and taught show jumping, hunt seat equitation, hunt seat over fences, pleasure horse, and Dressage. Mary Ann started and coached for 4 years a children's show team that campaigned in Rhode Island. She is a winner of 38 combined State and New England Championships and 14 Reserve Championships. She has also instructed students in equine training and equine showmanship. In the Philippines, she provided formal training in Dressage and hunt seat over fences before coming to Reddemeade in 1992. Since coming to Reddemeade, Mary Ann has campaigned several EquiShare horses at First and Second Level. She coordinates the Junior/Young Riders Dressage Teams.

Mardi has been riding since 1997 after having been a serious student of ballet since the age of 6. Her first riding instructor described dressage as ballet on horseback and instantly Mardi fell in love with dressage and horses. She started her training while an undergraduate and graduate student at Purdue University with a certified German riding instructor, Elke Herrman, and shortly thereafter began training with Walter Zettl. Mardi moved to Maryland to complete a PhD in Neuroscience and continued dressage training with Jane Seigler, Mary Ann Sabin, Walter Zettl and Ulf Wiltfang and is a graduate of Reddemeade’s instructor training school. Mardi spends much of her time in lab as a Neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and continues her dressage training with the goal of competing at the FEI level.

Katrina grew up in Bergen, Norway where she started riding at the age of 8.  Her teaching career began at 14 and she progressed quickly – achieving a Daily Manager Position only four years later at Hjortland Ridesenter, a riding school in Bergen. She formally trained in the UK for ABRS (Association of British Riding Schools) near London under Julian Marczak (ABRS Chairman and co-author of the official ABRS manual) and Karen Bush (author of Successful Jumping). In 2004, Katrina moved to the US and began riding at Reddemeade a year later.  She graduated from Reddemeade's Instructor Training Program in the spring of 2006 and currently trains with Jane Seigler, Ulf Wiltfang and Katherine Rizzo.  Katrina is also CHA Level 4 certified for English and Jumping, and is an Assistant Clinic Instructor for CHA. 

Kelsey began her riding career at Reddemeade at the age of 12. Starting as a working student and feeder, then becoming camp counselor and office worker, Kelsey is now a graduate of the Reddemeade Instructor Training Program. She currently rides under the instruction of Melissa Smith and Steve Young and competes successfully in both eventing and dressage. She is also is a participating member of the Junior/Young Rider Dressage Team.

Julia began riding at age 8, before moving to Reddemeade in 2003.  She has competed on the Region 1 Junior/Young Rider Championship team for two years, and has evented several Equishare horses.  A graduate of Reddemeade's instructor training program, Julia has also been a working student, feeder, office worker, and a member of the summer camp staff.  Julia will be entering Georgia Southern University in the Fall of 2010 and will major in nursing.

Katherine completed a graduate degree in scientific illustration at U.C. Santa Cruz in 2003, where she was the Intercollegiate Dressage Association team's head coach.  Before that, she completed two Bachelors of Arts degrees (Studio Art and Biology) at St. Mary's College of Maryland where she was the captain of the school's Intercollegiate Horse Show Association team (hunter equitation). Katherine events her horse Rockfish Willy and leased horse Majestic Falcon at Training level, as well as several client horses, and has experience in dressage, hunters, jumpers, vaulting, polo, jousting, swimming horses and games. Katherine also foxhunts regularly with Howard County-Iron Bridge Hounds and recently learned to steeplechase.  She is a Level I/Training Certified Instructor through the United States Eventing Association and is CHA certified in Level 4/English and Level 2/Western. She is also the head coach of the Academy of the Holy Cross's varsity equestrian team and is an instructor for the University of Maryland collegiate team.

Jessica is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Findlay, with degrees in Equestrian Studies, Equine Business Management, and Small Business/Entrepreneurship.  She has also been a working student for Olympic eventer Phyllis Dawson.  She has completed a Training 3-day Event with her mare, Star, and is currently competing Storm at Training level. She is also working toward upper level dressage with Tango, a Thoroughbred gelding.

A graduate of Reddemeade's Instructor Training Program, Alice has been riding at the barn since 1998.  During the day, she is a special education teacher with a Masters degree in teaching adolescents with emotional disturbance.

Peggy began her riding career in January of 2002 at Reddemeade. She immediately joined the Horsemasters-in-Training program and currently has special responsibility for the care of our retired and laid up horses. She rides under the tutelage of Steve Young and Melissa Smith. Peggy is a graduate of Reddemeade's Instructors Training Program and began teaching lessons in the fall of 2008. During the day she works as a physical education teacher and a physical fitness instructor.