About Me

Starting with my first riding lessons at a young age, I immediately was hooked with dressage and wanted to become a professional rider/ trainer. After I graduated from Commercial College and my final exam as municipal clerk, the opportunity for a two year apprenticeship at a dressage and jumping barn opened up. I graduated with distinction (Otto-Graf-von-Lehndorff-Plakette) as the best of my class as Pferdewirtin Schwerpunkt Zucht und Haltung (emphasis in breeding). I worked with the Hessian Breeding Association in Alsfeld, now Hanoverian Breeding Association, where I was involved with the training of the auction horses and assistance with the Elite Auction. I then took the opportunity for further training and begun my apprenticeship as Pferdewirtin Schwerpunkt Reiten (Bereiterin FN) near Collogne. I graduated in 2002 in Warendorf after only 10 months of training.

As Bereiterin I started my work at Gestuet Sommerlade, where I was assistant trainer for the stallions and the young horses. Here I met my later trainer who brought me up all the way to my masters exam, Heinz Croonenbroek. He trained with such well known riders as Fritz Tempelmann and Jean Bemelmans. Before I started working with him I finished my 3 months internship at Egon von Neindorff's riding institute in Karlsruhe, where I had the chance to learn about the classical dressage training in its purest form and learn from such horses as his former show horse Ebro the movements of the highest levels.

In 2003 I began working at Gestuet Berner with Heinz Croonenbroek, where I was as assistant trainer involved in the starting and further training of the young horses in dressage and jumping, as well as showing them in competitions, preparing young stallions for approvals, mares and stallions for performance tests, and sale horses for auctions. During the three years I also had the chance to train at Paul Schockemoehle's jumping barn in Muehlen to prepare for my masters exam in Warendorf 2007.

After I graduated the master program in Warendorf I worked i.a.at Gestuet Kampmann in Lingen where I trained with Jan Nivelle, national team trainer for the Spanish junior and young riders. In 2008 I got the offer to work at Pembroke Farm in New Mexico and moved to the beautiful Rio Grande Valley. As head trainer I not only started Pembroke Farm's youngsters under saddle and trained them up to the highest levels, I also offered training to students and their horses in the Albuquerque area.