Congratulations to the 2024 CDCTA Special Award Winners!
Volunteers of the Year: Paula Horne and Tara Jelenic
Muddy Boot Award: Jessi Whitmoyer
Nikki Norfleet Award (Highest Average Score by an Amateur on a TB): Blair Dunleavy/Virginia Gentleman
Dressage Scholarship: Grace Mosher and Carolyn Briggs
Eventing Scholarship: Farrin Wallace-Shaffer and Jodie Potts
Rebel Colony Award (lowest combined score from Fall and Spring HT): Leigh McPartlin and Mo Mischief
Eventing Thoroughbred of the Year Award: Cindi Moravec and Holloway
Alan Spivey Perpetual Dressage Pony Award: Helen Hayn and Ironwood Valena
MVP: Veronica Laughman
Volunteer of the Year
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1987
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Helen Junkin/Ann deMatteo
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2003
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Renee Loustaunau
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2019 |
I.N. Foreman |
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1988
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Margaret Freeman
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2004
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Mark Susol, Elaina Evans, Birdie Carrier
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2020 |
Sherri Booye, Karen Conk, Coree Reuter-McNamara |
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1989
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Marilyn Galvin
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2005
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Marion Lee
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2021 |
Steve Symansky |
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1990
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Janet Gunn
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2006
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Sarah Gerstein, Barb Zulick
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2022 |
Michael Booth, Scott Farrell, Troy Jacobs |
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1991
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Emmett Turner
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2007
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Megan Godek, Margaret Bogie
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2023 |
Stephanie Traylor and CJ Foreman |
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1992
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Debbie Marriott
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2008
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Jim Gehris
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2024 |
Paula Horne and Tara Jelenic |
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1993
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Peggy Hooven
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2009
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Helen Hayn
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1994
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Coleen Keenan-Hersson
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2010
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David Evans
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1995
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Erin Kenna
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2011
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Sandy McCormack
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1996
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Edith Kennedy
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2012
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Elaine Hobby
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1997
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Carol White
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2013
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Joe Verga
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1998
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Cathy Shiff
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2014
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Leslie Page
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1999
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Trish Conk
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2015
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Meg Melusen
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2000
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Susan Baker
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2016
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Mike & Lisa Mendell
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2001
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Janet Boots
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2017
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Nancy Covert
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2002
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Ruth Davis
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2018
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Miranda Kettlewell |
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Silver Spur Award
Silver Spurs are awarded at the discretion of the Vice Presidents of Dressage and Eventing. The recipient demonstrates a high level of commitment to their sport, whether by competition during the previous years or as a culmination of a distinguished riding career.
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1992
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Margaret Freeman
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1992
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Nancy Covert
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1993
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Ann Billings
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1993
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Shannon O’Malley
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1994
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Helen Junkin
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1994
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Donna Donaghy, Phil Snoy, Sharon White
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1995
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Laura Whitford
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1995
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Brant Gamma, Debbie Collins
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1996
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Debbie Marriott
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1996
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Wendy Bebie, Patty Plunkett, Nancy Covert
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1997
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Mary Lou Sullivan, Alison Head
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1998
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Peter Winants
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1999
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Betsey Clark, Ann DeMatteo
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1999
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Leslie Clark, Emily Weber
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2000
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Sandy Moulds
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2000
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Sara Kozumplik
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2001
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Not Awarded
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2001
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Yvonne Lucas
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2002
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Michael Matson
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2002
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Not Awarded
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2003
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Evelyn Susol
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2003
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Gillian Clissold
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2005
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Candy Allen
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2004-06
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Not Awarded
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2006
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Trish Conk
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2007
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Mary Clare
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2007
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Not Awarded
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2008
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Noel Hersson
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2008
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Emmett Turner
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2009
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Sandy McCormack
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2009
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Not Awarded
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2010
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Helen Hayn
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2010
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Kim Decker
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2011
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Suzy Gehris
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2011-2013
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2012-2013
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2014
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Lauren Sprieser
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2014
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Janet Gunn
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2015
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2015
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Tara Jelenic
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2016
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Miranda Kettlewell
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2016
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2017
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Mila Jelenic
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2017
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Karen Conk & I.N. Foreman
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| 2018 |
Gerald Family |
2018 |
Coree Reuter-McNamara |
| 2019 |
Jennifer Grossman |
2019 |
Coree Reuter-McNamara |
| 2020 |
CJ Foreman |
2020 |
Suzy Gehris/Jennifer Grossman |
| 2021 |
Not Awarded |
2021 |
Not Awarded |
| 2022 |
Not Awarded |
2022 |
Jodie Potts |
| 2023 |
Not Awarded |
2023 |
Coree Reuter-McNamara and Sharon White |
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2024 |
Not Awarded |
Muddy Boots Award
The Muddy Boot Award was inspired by the 2021 CDCTA Spring Horse Trials, where overnight rains soaked the parking and competition fields and volunteers worked tirelessly to pull trailers in and out of the venue so that the competition could take place.
The Muddy Boot Award is awarded to a volunteer whose actions go above and beyond the norm. This will be an additional award that compliments the Volunteer of the Year Award, but is selected by the Board of Directors, rather than by prior winners. CDCTA Membership and/or a set number of volunteer days are not required. The awardee can be nominated by any member of the board or membership and the board will determine the recipient at the December Board of Directors Meeting.
| 2021 |
Michael Conk |
| 2022 |
Elaina Evans |
| 2023 |
Lucy Valandra |
| 2024 |
Jessie Whitmoyer |
MVP Award
The CDCTA MVP Award may be given to the person who is the MVP (Most Valuable Player) for their “team” for the competition year. For many of members competitions are not an individual event, but a team competition. Sure there is the horse and rider, but the other often forgotten member of the team is the competition support staff. Some might call this person their groom, but quite frankly that denotes a level of equine professionalism and skill sets that our MVP may or may not possess. No, for many competitors their MVP is their parent, their neighbor, their friend, their spouse, or their child. That person is their MVP because without them their competition season would not be nearly such as successful as it was. Who can be a MVP? Anyone!
| 2019 |
Curt Reuter |
| 2020 |
McKenna Chenoweth |
| 2021 |
Tara Jelenic |
| 2022 |
Farrington Wallace-Shaffer |
| 2023 |
Meghan Corbitt |
| 2024 |
Veronica Laughman |