Trainer & Instructor
Staci’s lifelong love for horses began long before she ever had the opportunity to sit on her first one. At the age of 10, Staci started taking lessons with Jennifer Collman in 2001. Since then, Staci has gained a list of accomplishments that span the gamut of equestrian sport. A jumper rider at heart, Staci’s hopes and dreams live in the hunter and jumper ring. However, she has excelled in equitation, horsemanship, pleasure, dressage, eventing and more, up to a long list of wins at the regional and national level and was a member of the NCAA Intercollegiate Horse Show Association team for 2 years.
Staci has a talent for bringing out the best in all her horses – her International Patterned Sport Horse, Flashback Fever, went from zero to hero as she took him up the jumper ranks. She also competes with Flashback in dressage and is pursuing her USDF Bronze Medal. A local representative of the International Patterned Sport Horse, Staci and Flashback have been demonstrating the breed at the Minnesota Horse Expo since 2007. Her other horse, Poccos Nevada Joe was as classic of a rags-to-riches story as they come. Rescued for $1.00, “Poncho” is now competing with Staci in reining. She also rides a 2004 Oldenburg mare, Olympia, in the hunter and jumper rings. Staci’s newest horse, Vertical Limit, is a 2006 Holsteiner X Thorougbred mare showing huge potental as a jumper.
Her experience has ranged from starting young horses to putting on the finishing touches. She has helped to rehabilitate problem horses, further schooling in advanced competition horses, and is always furthering her own education as a trainer and teacher. With a foundation in natural horsemanship, she trains with a constant understanding of the world from the horse’s point of view. Her innate ability to maximize every horse’s potential makes her an asset to the training program, and allows her to help her horses and riders reach their biggest goals.
Staci’s goals still lie in every major equestrian event – she is working towards a USDF Bronze Medal with Flashback, is actively persuing a career in the Grand Prix jumper world, and also desires to be extremely proficient in reining. She also is working to improve upon her skills with young and problem horses through study of natural horsemanship. Her long list of interests and goals has made her a melting pot of different ideas and methods – her ability to find similarities between different horse worlds and apply them to her daily training has given her and her horses extreme versatility.
