 Registration Packet Available for Carlisle Academy Integrative Equine Therapy & Sports’ Symposium with Michel Assouline
Recognized as a USEF/USPEA National Para-Equestrian Dressage Centers of Excellence Symposium
Lyman, ME – April 30, 2017 – Carlisle Academy Integrative Equine Therapy & Sports is providing the registration packet for interested riders, coaches and auditors who would like to attend Carlisle Academy’s upcoming 2-Day Coach Development and Athlete Training Symposium with Michel Assouline. The symposium is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 5-6, 2017. This is the first symposium in a line-up of clinics, symposia, and schoolingshows for 2017. Educators include Dressage Trainers Michel Assouline and Hanneke Gerritsen for two spring clinics, and in Driving Scott Monroe for a four-clinic series. Additional onsite schooling shows will be offered, one judged by Hanneke Gerritsen and two others by Jane Tremlett. The Academy is recognized as one of the nation’s three USEF/USPEA National Para-Equestrian Dressage Centers of Excellence as well as a Paralympic Sport Club. Carlisle Academy is located in
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Michel Assouline. Photo courtesy of Carlisle Academy
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Lyman, Maine and is a national leader in grassroots education and training for emerging and high-performance para-equestrian athletes and coaches. Their focus is in the sport development of Para-Dressage and Para-Driving. Scholarship support will be available to riders, and eligible veterans may audit/participate free of charge through the Carlisle Charitable Foundation, and thanks to a grant from the Veterans Administration. Scholarships are also available to PATH Instructors who work with qualified veterans interested in pursuing para-dressage sport. Auditors and coaches are welcome. For more information about dates, activities, or biographies please visit http://carlisleacademymaine.com/programs/sports-education/para-dressage-education-training/ or contact Sarah Armentrout, Head of School, at sarmentrout@carlisleacademymaine.com or 207-985-0374.
Para-Dressage & Dressage:
Symposium with Michel Assouline, Friday and Saturday, May 5-6
Symposium with Hanneke Gerritsen, Friday & Saturday, June 2-3
In Para-Driving/Adaptive Driving:
Adaptive/Para-Driving Clinic Series with Scott Monroe (see attached PDF), June 9, August 18 & Nov 10
Schooling Shows:
Dressage & Para-Dressage Schooling Show at Carlisle Academy judged by Hanneke Gerritsen, Sunday, June 4
Dressage & Para-Dressage Schooling Show at Carlisle Academy judged by Jane Tremlett, Saturday, August 5
Dressage & Para-Dressage Schooling Show at Carlisle Academy judged by Jane Tremlett, Saturday, October 21
 About Carlisle:
The Academy is a founding center of the USEF/USPEA Para-Equestrian Dressage Center of Excellence, and one among three centers nationally. Since 2009, Carlisle Academy has been designing and conducting para-dressage camps and intensive training programs with international clinicians and judges at our training center in Maine as well as other select national locations. Carlisle is also a Paralympic Sport Club and recipient of an Adaptive Sport Grant through the Department of Veterans Affairs, working in collaboration with the United States Equestrian Federation to encourage growth and participation of eligible veterans into the international sports of para-dressage and para-driving.
About Michel Assouline:
Michel Assouline, International Dressage/Para-Dressage Trainer, U.K. Coach Hall of Fame, U.K. Sport’s Elite Coaching Program Graduate: Michel is a graduate of the French National Equestrian School, home of the Cadre Noir in Saumur and gained a vast international experience in the USA, France, Germany and the United Kingdom as an international dressage rider and trainer. Michel was long-listed to represent France at the Seoul Olympics and won the French National Championships in 2000. He has also scored numerous successes at International and National level. Michel was voted in 1995 UK Dressage Trainer of the Year, and is a member of the International Dressage Trainers Club. He is also currently on the British Dressage panel of trainers eligible to judge Potential International Dressage Horse classes and officiated several times at the Championships for four, five and six-year-old horse.
In 2005 Michel became the British Para-Equestrian Dressage Team Coach and has led Team GBR to riders to win Team Gold medals at the 2005 European Championships, the 2007 World Championships, the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games, the 2009 European Championships, the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games, the 2011 FEI Europeans, the 2012 London Paralympic Games, the 2013 FEI Europeans, the 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games, the 2015 FEI Europeans and the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games! At the Rio Games his athletes came back with a total of four silver and seven gold medals, medaling in all their classes contested. In November 2012 Michel was awarded the UK Sports Coach Medal and inducted in the Coaching Hall of Fame at the UK Coaching Awards ceremony. Later that year at the London Olympia International he received the prestigious British Equestrian Federation Medal of Honor. At the 2016 UK Coaching awards Michel Assouline along with Carl Hester, Angela Weiss, Lisa Hopkins and Helen Burt were awarded the Mussabini Medal – a sports award recognizing Coaches of British sports people and teams, and were inducted in the UK Coaching Hall of Fame. Michel recently successfully completed the inaugural intake of U.K. Sport’s Elite Coaching Program.
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