Oregon High School Equestrian Team OHSET Judge Information

OHSET Judge Information

Below are links for judge information and qualifications. Also listed below are links to the forms needed for judges.

If you have any Questions email state.judges@ohset.com

ATTENTION JUDGES: if you have not updated your class designation at this year's clinic, please contact Karissa Dishon at kdishon@ohset.com

Judge and Apprentice List

Apprentice Evaluation

Judges Evaluation (print and mail) OR (online submission)

Judges Contract Example (word format)

Letter to Judge Example (word format)

Put the 2010 OHSET Judges Training on your calendar now.

September 10-12, 2010 in Redmond, OR

The 2010 clinic will begin a slightly different format. All patterns will be completed before the clinic; emphasis will be on consistency in judging events, comparing scores and enhancing judging skills. Expected classes will include: Cattle Events, Working Pairs, Dressage, and much more! Cost for the clinic is expected to remain similar. The judges, district chair, volunteer track will be moved to a different weekend and will be held on the I5 corridor.

Do you have ideas on how we can improve our clinics? Please e-mail JoAnn Oswald or Karissa Dishon with you ideas and comments.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Understanding Bios
OHSET is in the process of creating a new Judges database that we hope to have online for next season. We would like to collect bios and help start building the database.

Below are some example Judge Biographies.

Judges please send a photo and a bio via email to Kdishon@ohset.com

Karen Bragg has been a horse trainer, breeder and riding instructor for more than 40 years. While specializing in Arabian horses, Karen has professionally trained and shown horses of many different breeds and disciplines including Saddle, Hunter and Western Pleasure, Hunter-Jumper, and Harness. Karen has always used dressage principles in training both horses and riders and has schooled successful dressage exhibitors in venues from 4-H to national breed competition.

Karen is an Oregon Horseman's Association judge and is a certified Drill team judge with 6 multi state drill team associations. Introduced to OHSET at it's conception, Karen judged the first OHSET meet ever held, and has been actively judging OHSET ever since.

Margaret Mendoza: My professional life in education with young adults is a segway to my being an OHSET judge. Judging for OHSET from its inception allowed me to use my equestrian and educational skills. Those equestrian skills were instilled through study with a Belgian Olympic medallist and through knowledge gained in the ring as well as through mentoring many riding students over 40 years.

Keeping current with rules and changes in the industry allows me to be able to adjudicate classes giving feedback that not only comes from years of experience, but and understanding of what is needed to achieve even greater equestrian success.

Bill Burke: Being and OHSET judge since its inception has allowed me to use my profession, educator in elementary school, and my avocation, the equestrian arts, to work with young adults and be able to share my knowledge from both areas.

I began working with horses is in 1959 on the East coast. In the past 50 years, through mentoring by Olympic medalists from Poland and the Netherlands, as well as with varied clinicians, I have gained a better understanding of movement, equitation, and the bio-mechanics that make up this sport.

Presently, I am preparing my Trakehner for Third level as well as him being and eventer. In September, I restarted the Thoroughbred that I got off the track last November when he was 2 1/2 yrs old.

Please feel free to visit my web site: www.burkeshireglen.net for more in-depth information.

Thanks,
Bill Burke

Karissa Dishon: As a Performance exhibitor I showed in 4-H, Open, as well as AQHA. I also rode Gymkhana for 10+ years and actively showed in WHO, CBRC, as well as AQHA. My AQHA performance history includes multiple All Around titles in youth and open divisions, and I am a 5 time qualifier and exhibitor at the AQHYA World Show. As a coach and instructor, my students have won multiple OHSET state medals, as well three consecutive team event top five finishes.

I have been an OHSET Judge for 3 years and have been actively involved in OHSET for 6 years. As an OHSET judge I have had the opportunity to judge in four out of eight districts. At the 2009 OHSET State Championships I judged three individual events and one team event. Besides judging OHSET, I also judge Open shows as well as 4-H. My primary expertise includes In Hand Events, Western Performance Events, IHOR, Pairs, Drill, Hunt Seat, and I am also qualified in Driving, Saddle Seat, and Timed Events.

Julie Singer retired from the State of Oregon after 35 years of service. She found that she was not ready for retirement so now works part-time for The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde as a Disability Consultant. In her younger years she was a rodeo queen, member of several courts and showed reining horses. She has been a 4-H, OHSET, OFEA, OHA and Rodeo Pagent judge for 35+ years. She enjoys working with youth, watching them achieve their goals, and having fun with their equine partners. In her spare time she raises beef cattle on her small ranch in Salem, Oregon. She enjoys spending time with family, friends, and of couse "Maggie Mae" her fearless Welch Corgie.