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[RC] Junior and Mentors - Marcia NelsonI coach junior
riders in CTR's and I consider it seed planting. They will grow up and go to
college and/or have families and children of their own. When they hit that
typical 40+ time when so many return to riding and endurance, they will be all
the better for having had the experience as a junior!! The crop of today were
the juniors of the past and so it goes year after year. I will continue to coach
juniors year after year. My first crop is already married and doing the family
thing so the cycle is already well on its way.
I am the result of
an active horsy junior life. I had a hiatus away from horses as I raised my
family, but my roots were deep and I am back and in the horse culture to stay
for the rest of my life. I am very grateful for the adults that gave me a
good start as a junior!! Here here for the mentors of juniors!! This is why I
agree that the juniors are the future. Not that the sport will be taken over by
juniors, but that the active adults in the sport were once active juniors!!
mnhorsin
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