Holly Shea Sayre of Churchville, Virginia wins TEAM CHA Youth Award
The Certified Horsemanship Association (CHA) has a TEAM CHA youth Horse Connection Reward Program for kids 15 years and younger. The participants keep track of their hours working with horses whether they own horses or not!  They can count activities such as riding lessons, watching non-fiction videos and reading non-fiction books about horses, grooming, cleaning stalls, cleaning tack, feeding and so on.
 
The Top Five Winners of the TEAM CHA Horse Connection Reward Program 2007 are:
Holly Shea Sayre of Churchville, Virginia with 631 hours
Evangeline Windmill of Coldstream, British Columbia with 520.5 hours
Jennifer Finley of Dayton, Ohio with 382.5 hours
Katherine Swann of Willard, Missouri with 290 hours
Tiffany Couture of Colchester, Vermont with 269 hours
 
Congratulations to the winner ˆ Holly Shea Sayre of Churchville, Virginia!  Holly is 15 years old and helps her mother teach riding lessons and do summer camps for kids on their property. She loves to go trail riding and jump her Welsh pony and do dressage on her Thoroughbred. She found out about TEAM CHA through her mother and got most of her hours by feeding the horses every day and helping with the lessons and camps. Holly wants to go to a college that has an equestrian team and wants to teach riding lessons.

"The TEAM CHA Horse Connection Rewards Program was a great way to look back at a whole year and see how the hours working with horses really add up," says Holly. "I am excited to be a part of it and very happy."
 
Holly will receive a model horse from the Peter Stone Company, great CHA merchandise and a plaque. Thank you to Stone Horses and Blaze Magazine for providing awards for the Horse Connection Reward Program for TEAM CHA youth members!
 
The purpose of CHA is to promote excellence in safety and education for the benefit of the horse industry. CHA certifies instructors and trail guides, accredits equestrian facilities, publishes educational manuals and hosts regional and international conferences. For more information on the Certified Horsemanship Association, please visit www.cha-ahse.org  or www.chainstructors.com  or call toll free 1-800-399-0138.