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ALERT: One Day Left to Enter Nominations for 2012 USEF Lifetime Achievement Award and Pegasus Medal of Honor Award

Jim Wofford received the 2011 USEF Lifetime Achievement Award (USEF Archive)

Lexington, KY – The deadline to nominate individuals for the United States Equestrian Federation’s (USEF) 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award and Pegasus Medal of Honor Award is here. Nominations must be received by the USEF no later than tomorrow – Friday, September 21st.

Any current USEF members may submit nominations for these prestigious awards.

The recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented with the Jimmy A. Williams trophy at the 2013 USEF Annual Meeting. This award recognizes the horseman or woman whose lifetime experience and accomplishments exemplify uncommon devotion to the sport of competition with horses whose equestrian career and horsemanship have continually elevated the sport’s excellence. The nominee must be living and retired from actively competing in equestrian sport.

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Nominations for USEF Lifetime Achievement Award and Pegasus Medal of Honor Award Due by September 21st

Jim Wofford received the 2011 USEF Lifetime Achievement Award (USEF Archive)

Lexington, KY – The deadline to nominate individuals for the United States Equestrian Federation’s (USEF) 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award and Pegasus Medal of Honor Award is fast approaching. Any current USEF members may submit nominations for these prestigious awards, but the nominations must be received by the USEF on or before September 21st.

The recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented with the Jimmy A. Williams trophy at the 2013 USEF Annual Meeting. This award recognizes the horseman or woman whose lifetime experience and accomplishments exemplify uncommon devotion to the sport of competition with horses whose equestrian career and horsemanship have continually elevated the sport’s excellence. The nominee must be living and retired from actively competing in equestrian sport.

The recipient(s) of the Pegasus Medal of Honor Award will be presented with the Gold Pegasus Medal at the 2013 USEF Annual Meeting. This award recognizes individuals who have exhibited outstanding services to horses and the sport, and who, through their dedication, have attracted people to the sport and contributed to horse sport by advancing its popularity. The nominee must be living and be retired from actively competing in equestrian sport.

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John ‘Jack’ Kimball & Judith Noone to Receive 2010 USDF Lifetime Achievement Award

Lexington, KY (November 24, 2010) – The United States Dressage Federation (USDF) will present a Lifetime Achievement Award to John ‘Jack’ Kimball and Judith Noone at the Salute Gala & Annual Awards Banquet on December 3, 2010, at the Adequan/USDF National Convention & Symposium in Jacksonville, FL. These two recipients have shown a lifetime of dedication to USDF through volunteering, and developing programs, projects, and committees that have contributed to USDF’s mission. They also have a long history of membership in USDF.

The late John “Jack” Kimball, of McIntosh, FL, was an active volunteer with USDF from its beginnings in 1973 until his death in June 1996.  Kimball was a founding member of USDF, served on several USDF committees, including Technical Delegates, Symposium Organizing, and Show Management, served as USDF Region 3 Director from 1979-1987, was a well-known American Horse Shows Association (now US Equestrian Federation) “R” dressage judge and technical delegate, and helped a number of USDF Group Member Organizations (GMOs) get off the ground.  These included the Florida Dressage Society which is one of USDF’s first charter GMOs for which he served as an official representative at the inaugural USDF meeting.

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