Welcome to Cowgirl Way Women’s equestrian drill team.
First our members would like to thank you for your interest in our wonderful sport and visiting our web page. The sport of riding drill is one that challenges the riders, horses as well as the coaches (and you just thought Tina’s hair is naturally short and frizzy.) What is drill you ask? According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia…
“An equestrian drill team is a group of horses and riders performing choreographed maneuvers to music. Teams typically perform at rodeos, horse fairs, parades, benefits, and drill team competitions. Drill teams are intended to entertain, show sportsmanship, horsemanship, team work and dedication. Competition drill at the national level is a controlled ride and has continuous forward motion. Some competition venues have set up special divisions of competition to provide for novice, rodeo, youth, gaited and special effects (as allowed at the venue) such as theme and drama. Theme drill provides a division that allows teams to showcase their uniforms, horse ability, music and inclusions of trick riding or other variations. Members must have a uniform appearance, including outfits, hats, tack, and flags (if used). Horses should be of the same type, e.g. stock type, gaited, or miniature, however matching horse colors or breeds are at the team’s discretion. Teams can range in size from four horses (Quad team) to 20 plus horses. At competitions, a drill team is judged on ability, including spacing and alignment, timing and coordination, originality, difficulty, and attractiveness of patterns, speed, horsemanship, uniformity, manners of the animals, music, and crowd appeal. Categories can include Novice, Youth, 4-H, Gaited, Theme, Rodeo, Quad, or Open.”
Our team consists of riders ranging in age from 15 to 63 years young and our horses range from 6 to 21 years. Our horses include Quarter Horses, Paints, Arabians and grade horses. We have one mother/daughter combo at this time and the column riders come from varied equestrian backgrounds. Some of our equestrian skills range from showing, reining, cutting, working cattle, training and competing in flat and endurance racing, jumping and pleasure/trail riding. We are a competitive group of women whose goal is to be competing at the top level in the drill competitions, ride just as fast and hard as the rodeo contestants at the rodeos, and be pretty as a postcard while performing. Our team goal is also to be supportive and courteous to all who we may meet in our travels.