HUNTERS
KAT
U25 Grand Prix Dressage & FEI Grand Prix Jumper Equestrian, recipient of 9 USEF Horse of the Year awards & multi Grand Hunter Champion JR/Pony Hunter trophies, Kat is proving herself to be America’s most decorated and versatile equestrian. At 10, she won her first national championship at USEF Pony Finals, repeating the title twice in the following year. By 13, with multiple mounts she racked up multiple national JR Grand Hunter Championships at the most exclusive competitions; WEF, Devon, Harrisburg, Washington, and The National and expanded her repertoire, with dressage & show jumping to her Wellington, FL commute for high training & competition since 2014.
By 2017, Kat earned 9 USEF Hunter Horse of the Year awards, 12 WEF Circuit Champion Awards, and 2 Show Hunter Hall of Fame Awards. By 2020, adding Dressage to win 3rd at National Children's her first year out, and a spot on the USEF Dressage Emerging Athletes Program. By 14 Kat became USA Dressage Junior Champion, received her USDF Bronze & Silver Medal. Today 2026, Kat is distinguished with 4 Gold, a Silver, and 4 Bronze FEI Medals, represented the USA in 2 Nations Cups, earning a Team Bronze by age 15, and USA Dressage YR Reserve Champion 2022.
In 2023, Kat expanded her Atlanta home base and Wellington seasonal residence to add a home in Germany’s Driehof in Tecklenburg. She teams with CEO Schockemöhle Andreas Kruezer where her five Jumpers are based. Kat competed her first Grand Prix Dressage by age 16, Grand Prix Show Jumping by age 15, and actively competes her horses in CSI-2 star competitions in Germany, Holland, and Belgium. She hopes to ride for the USA in Nations Cups in both disciplines. In 2024 she represented the USA at Aachen as YR Dressage competitor earning 5th. 2025 at the prestigious Oldenburg Cup Kat cleared and jumped off to 7th in the 1.55m Grand Prix. USET selected Kat as recipient of the Lionel Guerrand Hermes Trophy given to a youth from all FEI disciplines expected to make an Olympic team. 2026 again she is on USEF Emerging Athlete Program her 6th term, after making 3 European Teams to date.