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