At the conclusion of the USHJA Emerging Athletes Program National Training Session, Sunny Drescher, 16, finished the four days of immersion in horsemanship, riding and training with a battery of USHJA clinicians with the win.

Drescher is a high school junior from Hinesburg, Vt., and a student of Annie Dotoli and Aster Peiters at Tibri in Chepachet, R.I. She owns one horse that she shows in the 3’6” equitation division and also catch-rides sales horses for Dotoli and Peiters.