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CIRT
RIDERS DRILL TEAM |
| 2007
Session | |
This years unified
drill team is a mix of youth volunteers/4-H members and riders with disabilities
who meet once a week. The purpose of the drill team is to maximize the rider's
abilities by encouraging teamwork between riders, the horses, and each other.
In order for the drill team to be successful, all horses and riders have to work
together so no one is left behind.
The drill team helps serve as a social function and a CIRT project. It is full
of hard work, dedication, skill, communication between riders, horse and rider,
and instructor. It is also fun, with a touch of humor. It takes pratice, skill
and communication to maneuver horses together in a drill team. This activity allows
the horse and rider to communicate and riders to communicate.
Instructor, Jenna Walker. "A
drill team furnishes the association that not only gives man the old-time companionsip
with the horse, but offers also a remarkable amount of incidental benefits."
The Drill team offers "all grades of satisfaction from the most simple-of
being atop a horse-to that very complicated showmanship, demonstrating to the
public the entertainment that the combination of man and horse can provide..."
The Mounted Drill Team
by John Henry.
©1954
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Drill
Team | | | Erika
B. | Erika
has been on the CIRT drill team for 3 years and is a CIRT rider and a CIRT volunteer.
She has volunteered over 200 hours or more and says that her most favorite part
of volunteering is walking the horses to and from the pasture. She rides Dusty
in the Drill Team exercise, a smooth ride who was used in Western Trail Riding.
( See Article Riding to their
aid by Ryan Oro of the Peoria Journal Star, August 23, 2007) |
| Amanda
C. | Rusty
is an Appendix Quarter Horse that Amanda rides during the Drill Team Exercises.
She has also volunteered over 200 hours of her time to CIRT. She loves to work
in the barn and is equally as happy working in the office or at events. Amanda
has been on the Drill Team for 3 years, and for the last year, with her sister,
Barbara. (See Article Riding
to their aid by Ryan Oro of the Peoria Journal Star, August 23, 2007) |
| Josie
G. | Josie
spends many hours volunteering at CIRT and at last count, had over 200 hours.
Her Mom, Kathy works at CIRT in the office. Josie loves to work in the barn, at
events, or in the office. She can do many jobs and is always willing to help.
Josie has been a member of the Drill Team for one year and rides the bay Arabian
mare, Nettie. (See Article Riding
to their aid by Ryan Oro of the Peoria Journal Star, August 23, 2007) |
| Barbara
M. | Like
her teammates Josie and Ashley, Barbara has only been on Drill Team for one year
but what a year it has been! Her big sister, Amanda is on the team, and her Mom
is an instructor at CIRT. Barbara has volunteered 200+ hours of her free time
to CIRT and she loves to work in the barn. For Drill Team, Barbara rides Mike,
a handsome Quarter Horse/Morgan Mix. (See the Article
Riding to their Aid by Ryan Oro of the Peoria Journal Star, August 23, 2007) |
| Jeremy
Q. | Hank,
a loveable paint gelding teams up with the only man on the Drill Team, Jeremy,
as the fifth member of the squad. Jeremy has been on the Drill team for 3 years
and has showed in UPHA (United Professional Horseman Association) where he placed
in the top ten. | | Ashley
S. | Captain,
an Arabian Quarter horse gelding with personality plus is the teammate of Ashley.
They have been together one year on the squad. Ashley, like most of her teammates,
is an avid volunteer, volunteering over 200 hours of her free time to CIRT. (See
the article Riding to their
Aid by Ryan Oro of the Peoria Journal Star, August 23, 2007) |
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September 1, 2007 | |
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