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Vanessa Bartsch, Head Coach
A former student athlete at Stanford, and volunteer coach, Bartsch returned to the Red Barn full time during the 2004 season to lead the renovation and reopening of the stables under the management of Stanford Athletics. As the Executive Director of Equestrian and Head Coach of the Equestrian Team, Bartsch has led the team to twelve consecutive Regional and Zone Championships, as well as 11 Top-Ten National Championship Finishes, including 22 individual National Championships and Res. Championships. Bartsch was awarded the IHSA Coaches Award in 2006. |
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Tina Davey, Assistant Coach
Davey joined Stanford’s team in 20016, bringing extensive experience as a trainer and coach, most recently at Mississippi College where she served as the as the Director of Equestrian Programs and maintained a boutique show barn with private clients. Prior to that, Davey ran Elvenstar’s Orange County training barn, where one of her roles was coaching the University of California, Irvine equestrian team. Tina was a student athlete (and co-captain) on the University of California, Santa Cruz Equestrian Team. Davey helps teach and mentor Stanford’s IHSA, AEL and IEA Teams, in addition to helping manage Stanford’s horses and serving as a program director to the Riding Academy. |
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Jennifer Cameron, Western Coach
Cameron joined the coaching staff for the 2015-16 season. With a diverse equestrian background showing on the AQHA, AMHA, and A circuit with National Championships in Trail in Western Pleasure, Jennifer brings her Western experience to the team. Under her coaching, the Western team has taken home Regional Championships, Top Five placings at the IHSA Western Semi-Finals, and athletes have gone on to the National Finals. Cameron holds a B.S. and Post-Bac in Equine Science and she is currently completing a MSc in Clinical Animal Behavior |
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Kate Douglas, Dressage Coach
Douglas began competing in dressage in 2005 under the tutelage of Katie Hoefs Martin. She won the 2013 Region 7 Second Level Jr/Yr Champion on Fein Style, the 2014 Reserve Champion Silver Stirrup National Award on Don Marco, and was top 20 Third Level Open at the 2015 US Dressage Finals on Don Marco. Kate has consistently placed top three in Year-End Awards from USEF, USDF, CDS, Performance Horse Registry, and the American Hanoverian Society. She has ridden in multiple clinics with US Olympian Lisa Wilcox as well Former FEI 5* Judge Axel Steiner. She has trained multiple horses up from prospect to successful upper level dressage horses and uses her training and show experience to guide the Stanford Dressage team. |
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Gwyn Gordon, Hunt Seat Coach
Gordon, a co-founder of the Stanford Equestrian Team, spent stints working for Richard Spooner, Patty Ball, Constance Kilmartin, Lucie Wharton, and Steve & Jenny Newell. Gordon served as the Head Coach of the Team in the 90′s, a volunteer position at the time, after starting Cardinal Farms in 1993. In addition to being a co-collaborator with Coach Bartsch, and former Wester Coach, Jana Cain in the efforts to renovate the Red Barn in 2004 (she still serves on the Red Barn Advisory Board), Gordon returned to the coaching staff where she has served as a clinician and coach for the Hunt Seat Team for the past dozen years, helping coach riders to the Zone and National Finals. |
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Taylor Singmaster, Western Coach
Singmaster has an extensive show career that includes championships at AQHA Congress and the NSBA World Championship Show, multiple year end top ten finishes on the AQHA and NSBA circuit, competing for the University of South Carolina’s NCEA Equestrian team and becoming a PATH Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructor.
She coaches Stanford’s Western team, as well as the Red Barn’s AEL team and Stanford PE classes. She also teaches therapeutic and adaptive riding at BOK Ranch where she is also the Volunteer Coordinator.. She has her BFA and MFA in Photography/Videography which remains an important pass-time for her |