Directed by a North American Riding for the Handicapped Association certified instructo r, the program provides therapeutic exercise and enjoyment for handicapped children and adults in the area. The riding club organizes equine related activities, including driving clinics, field trips, films, fox-hunting, and educational seminars. Everyone is welcome to join the club and encouraged to participate on committees for the various activities. Dressage and Combined Training Club is a student run organization with the purpose of offering an opportunity for students to participate in Dressage and Combined Training. Students compete and participate in Hunter Pace competitions, Intercollegiate Combined Tests, Dressage competitions, clinics, cross country schooling, and three phase events.
Students work with each other to enhance each others' ability and knowledge of the sport.
The Mount Holyoke Equestrian Center provides educational and competitive experiences for the equestrian community at large, as well as for Mount Holyoke students. The annual calendar also includes weekly clinics with well-known instructors and judges in dressage, combined training, hunter and jumper disciplines. Her hunter and equitation experience as a junior rider, as well as experience as an intercollegiate rider, enhance her position as coach of the riding team at Mount Holyoke. She graduated from the equestrian degree program as Averett College, where she subsequently taught, and has since studied with internationally r ecognized professionals in dressage and combined training. She has competed at third level in dressage and at preliminary level in combined training.