Region II Clinics, Awards, Luncheon ................2Phoenix Team Building Clinic ........................... 3Adrienne Stang’s 8th ........................................ 4

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Region II’s Celebration of the Sport of Equestrian Vaulting

Mt. Eden Medals and Party .............................. 5What Vaulting Means to the Kids ...................... 6Calendar ...........................................................8

Region II Officers, Committees, Clubs ............. 9

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REGION II 2015 HIGHPOINT AWARDS LUNCHEON & CLINICS January 24th, 2016 from 8:30A.M.– 4:00 P.M. Bay Shore Elite Gymnastics; 2694 Middlefield Rd. Suite A Redwood City CA

9:00-12:00 & 1:30-4:30PM Region II Clinics

12:00-1:30PM Region II Highpoint Awards & Potluck Luncheon

CLINIC STATIONS INCLUDED: Theater Dance WITH LOGAN HEHN Horse Anatomy WITH TAMARA YATES Acrobatics WITH RACHEL FORD Nutrition WITH DR MINDY PELZ–HALL Gymnastics WITH ERICA MEITZ Artistry with Apparel WITH PANEL INCLUDING AVA JUDGES

25 SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE Contact MEGAN GROVE for Registration Packet or to RSVP for the Luncheon at meganinharmony@gmail.com

Register NOW or RSVP for the Awards Luncheon Rotation Clinics Registration $75.00 The Awards Luncheon will be a potluck. Please RSVP and you will receive an email directly about what type of potluck dish/item to bring

There is still clinic space available. EVERYONE is invited to the Pot Luck, Region II Meeting and High Point Awards Ceremony. The Region II Board Meeting will be held after the awards. Please email any items for the agenda or nominations for 2016 Reg. II Officers to Kelley Holly. Join us! The Agenda so far: • Appoint an assistant for Education Officer and two assistants for promoting educational events • Feedback on previous clinic/awards/luncheon events • Develop more educational events • Host for 2017 clinics/awards/luncheon event • Date/locatiion for Regional Championships • High Point Awards • Ways to make Region II events more visible and information more accessible to our Region’s members • Election of 2016 Officers. Nominated officers: President - Kelley Holly, Vice President - Carolyn Conner, Treasurer - Jill Hobby, Communications Officer - Marianne Rose, Secretary - n/a.

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Join through your club (recommended) or join online. Vaulters need to be AVA members to compete in AVA recognized events, but why should parents join? There are benefits such as access to the members-only parts of the AVA website and participation in AVA clinics and meetings. The other important reason to join is to keep the influcence of our Region II strong. Do you want to see more AVA events in our Region? Do you want more AVA officers/direc-tors from our Region? Your participation in the process, your votes make this possible. Also,

Don’t Forget to Renew your AVA Memberships

AVA Annual Conference: Tuscon, Arizona, March 3-6Join a few hundred of your closest vaulting friends for the AVA Annual Conference to be held at the Hilton El Conquistador Resort in Tucson, AZ, March 3 – 6, 2016. It will be a great weekend of extensive coach/lunger/vaulter/vaulting parent educational sessions and clinics. Saturday evening’s highlight is the prestigious Annual Awards Banquet and Silent Auction. This will be an in-credibly educational weekend for all attendees, featuring some of the best clinicians around! Most of the event information has been posted at www.americanvaulting.org -->National Convention.

if you are part of a vaulting group which is NOT an AVA member club, please encourage your club to join. Even if you join as an affiliate group, it adds to the power of our region!Our numbers make us strong.

Phoenix Team Building ClinicMegan GroveWe had a fabulous time working with Patti Skipton at our Team Building Clinic on Saturday, December 5th, 2015. We enjoyed sipping on hot apple cider in between work-ing on the barrels and vaulting on Shamus. This was the first time working on team exercises on the horse for our new group of vaulters who started vaulting with Phoenix Vaulting Club and Equestrians In Harmony in September. Everyone had a wonderful time and it was a great early Christmas present for everyone who came.Thank you so much Patti for your help and advice from Phoenix Vaulting Club’s Megan Grove, Kristin Grove, Maite Testerman, Ruby Testerman, Maggie Grettum, Elizabeth Stephens, Isabela Hurtado, Camille Almaguer, Grace Illes, and Natalia Hurtado & from Carolyn Con-ner’s Morning Star Vaulters Iris Anselmi and Cameron Cormack! And a second HUGE thank you to the American Vaulting Association and the Grant Committee for the additional grant awarded to Phoenix Vaulting Club to help bring a new clinician to our club! This was the perfect way to end a amazing year of vaulting

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Adrienne Stang’s 80thMarianne RoseAdrienne Stang celebrated her 80th birthday in November. The party was hosted by her son at his lovely home in Atherton. Many of the local (and some non-local) vaulting VIPs enjoyed a delicious meal and entertainment provided by Adrienne‚Äôs grandchildren playing music and singing. It was a lovely evening of trips down mem-ory lane and visits with friends. Happy birthday Adrienne.Photos by Susie Bors

Lynne Owen, Adrienne Stang, Istar Walls

Suzanne Detol, Julie Divita

Carolyn Bland, Jim Bibbler

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Mt. Eden Medal TestsThe following Mt. Eden members earned their AVA medals/pins in October:Silver Medal with Lanson and Noah Bodhi Hall and Michelle GueBronze Medal with Noah Giulia Corno, Morgan Lamber, Caroline Morse, Tarra Samak, Anastasia ZeninTrot Medal with Soda Pop Gianna Cagliostro, Maya Drusnsky, Madelyn Hubb, Sofia Oberg, Megan Stambaugh Novice Canter Pin with Vermeer Grace Marcus, Clara Oberg, Stefano CornoNovice Canter Pin with Vivaldi Claire Burnett, Daniella Kovalerchik, Marie Obeloer

Mt. Eden Holiday PartyAfter performing at the Los Gatos Holiday Parade, Mt. Eden held it’s annual holiday party at Garrod Farms. There was great food, stories, games and presents. Happy holidays to all.

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What Vaulting Means to the KidsMarianne RoseAbout 15 years ago a teacher brought a group of her students to me for a vaulting class. I don’t remember the ages of the youngsters - maybe 2nd through 4th grade. Our horse, Danny, and I gave them a good class and they all seemed to enjoy it. They all wrote thank you notes – and then the teacher forgot to mail the notes to me! She came across them this summer and finally mailed them. Here are some of their comments and drawings:

It was a lot of fun and a memorable experience. MollyI really enjoyed it. Don’t be surprised if I show up for another lesson. Katie

I never knew I could do so many things on a horse. ClareIt was fun. I learned a lot about horses and vaulting. Tessa

Thank you for letting us vault. I had lots of fun, both on and off the horse. I really liked vaulting and would do it again! Lillit

I may take vaulting instead of archery this year in Kennolyn. WillI was surprised that the horse was so calm even when I did a terrible jump.

Thank you again! TomokoI never knew that I could ride a horse. Neiko

I didn’t know it was that easy!!! I had lots of fun. NOT!!! Horsevaulting was actually all right. Griffin

I really liked it. It was cool how we got to choose to do it at a walk or trot but I wish we could have stood. Mea

I enjoyed it very much. I got to summer camp at Garrod Farms whire I had been vaulting before. I usually do jumping but I liked being introduced to a new equestrian sport. OndineI had a great time and learned a lot. My favorite part was when we did the windmill. Alex

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I really enjoyed being on the horse, though I don’t like horses very much. It was a fun experience. I learned what it was like to be on a horse. Lauren

I learned so much in so little time. BaotiI thought it was very fun when we were on one leg and one arm. Zack

I found it fun riding and being around horses. BryanI have no idea if any of these youngsters came back for another class. It was a long time ago so I don’t remember but I thought you might enjoy these yong voices from the past. I hope the sentiments would be the same today.

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REGION II CLINICS/AWARDS/DINNER .......................... January 24 - Redwood City - meganinharmony@gmail.com

TAMBOURINE BARREL FEST ..........................................................February 6 - Petaluma - tambourine-farm@att.net

PACIFIC COAST BARREL FEST ......................................................................April 9 - Woodside - whimby4@aol.com

NORTH VALLEY SPRING FEST ....................................April 16-17 - Bute Valley - equestriansinharmony@gmail.comCVI PACIFIC CUP ..................................................................................April 29-May 1 - Hollister - lbibbler@gmail.com

GARROD’S SPRING CLASSIC ......................................................May 14-15 - Saratoga - marianne@mariannerose.net

WOODSIDE VAULTER’S SPRING FEST ..............................................June 6-7 - Portola Valley - lbibbler@gmail.com

TAMBOURINE JUNE FEST ............................................................... June 25-26 - Petaluma - tambourine-farm@att.net

REGION II CHAMPIONSHIPS ..................................................................................................TBA (Mid or end of July)USEF/AVA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS...............August 5-7 - Murfreesboro, TENNESSEE - lbibbler@gmail.com

NORTH VALLEY AUTUMN FEST ........................September 17-18 - Bute Valley - equestriansinharmony@gmail.comMORNING STAR FEST & FUN FEST....................................................... October 2 - Novato - cc_vaulter@yahoo.com

MT. EDEN’S HALLOWEEN FEST ............................................... October 30 - Saratoga - marianne@mariannerose.net

The dates, locations of events are all subject to change. See AVA website and FEI website for more info.

Calendar 2016

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2015 REGION II CLUBS 2015-2016 AVA Region II Registered Clubs as of January 2016For current information visit www.americanvaulting.org -->Find a Club -->Region II

Brookside Vaulters - www.brooksidevaulters.weebly.com Mona Hogye - tmhogye@yahoo.com 9800 Brookside Ave, Ben Lomond, CA 95005 ...........................................................831-336-1148

Circle Of Friends - Patti Reschar - annburns@comcast.net ...........................4408-836-766419810 Lanark Lane, Saratoga, CA 95070

Foothill Flyers - http://foothillflyersvaultingclub.com Megan Memari - meganmemari@me.com ...................................................................530-680-85114440 Panorama Drive, Placerville, CA 95667

Half Moon Bay Vaulters - Jill Palmer - jpa1775551@aol.com .....................650-726-3115321 Verde Rd, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019

Hope, Horses & Kids - Lori Tuttle - ljt1218@sbcglobal.net ..........................831-757-92351218 Padre Dr., Salinas, CA 93901

Morning Star Vaulters Carolyn Conner - cc_vaulter@yahoo.com ................415-246-4377groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/MorningStarWillowTree/info95 San Miguel Wy, Novato, CA 94947

Mt. Eden Vaulting Club www.mountedenvaulting.org.................408-867-9527Emma Seely - emmaseely17@gmail.com - 22647 Garrod Road, Saratoga, CA 95070

President: .................................Kelley Holly - tambourine-farm@att.net .............................. 707-665-9281Vice President ..........................Carolyn Conner - cc_vaulter@yahoo.com ............................ 415-897-8486Treasurer ..................................Jill Hobby - jill.hobby@hobbyfamily.org ............................. 530-758-4872Secretary ..................................Michelle Solorzano - crcircle25@yahoo.com ...................... 916-910-4302Communications ......................Marianne Rose - marianne@mariannerose.net ..................... 408-867-1789AVARegional Supervisor .........Sue Smith, sscherfssmith@yahoo.com ................................. 408-515-1282

2015 Committee ChairsEducation .................................Megan Grove - meganinharmony@gmail.com .................... 530-865-4558Region II High Point ................Carol Beutler - cbeutler@sbcglobal.net ................................ 650-366-7527

2015 Region II Officers

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marianne@mariannerose.net

Email me your club logo and I’ll include it next time. NEXT ISSUE - APRIL 2016.Deadline March 15: Email any stories, articles, photos about what your club is doing and/or any special plans or events. Anything new and different?

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Nu Balance Vaulters Michelle Solorzano - crcircle25@yahoo.com ............916-910-43027668 Cook Avenue, Citrus Heights, CA 95610-2940

Pacific Coast Vaulters www.pacificcoastvaulting.com Carolyn Bland - suebrit1@gmail.com .........................................................................650-851-8825 230 Josselyn Lane, Woodside, CA 94062

Pallas Vaulting Club - Robert Dykstra - rgallowglas@gmail.com .................915-248-32122660 Moore Road, Lincoln, CA 95648

Pegasus Vaulters - Kitchy Burdette - kitchyk@aol.com ..................................831-475-86792643 Old San Jose Road, Soquel, CA 95073-9770

Phoenix Vaulting Club - Megan Grove - meganinharmony@gmail.com ......530-200-39443995 County Rd. S, Orland, CA 95963

Portola Valley Vaulters - Julie Divita - enjplus4@gmail.com .......................650-464-4887117 Pinon Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028

Silver State Vaulters Mary Pollard - silverstatevaulters@gmail.com ...........775-356-586112060 Lemmon Drive, Reno, NV 89506

Starlite Vaulters Aletha Traskin - alethea.traskin@comcast.net .....................559-323-85505220 N.Greenwood Ave., Clovis, CA 93619

Surf City Vaulters - Honami Thomas - peenom@att.net ..................................831-818-707117020 Blackie Road, Prunedale, CA 93907

Tambourine Vaulters www.tambourinevaulters.org ......................707-665-9281Kelley Holly - tambourine-farm@att.net, 1 Liberty Rd, Petaluma, CA 94952

Woodside Vaulters www.woodsidevaulters.org Isabelle Parker - isabelle.parker@gmail.com ...........................................................650-299-9281P.O. Box 620862, Woodside, CA 94062