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New NRHyA Officers Ready for 2012

Written by NRHyA

2012 NRHyA President Blair Willette

The National Reining Horse Youth Association is starting off the new year with a new group of dedicated youth officers. These five devoted and hard-working young women were elected by their peers to lead the NRHyA in 2012. They have high goals and are ready to get started.

Officers Elected At Eventful NRHA Futurity

At the 2011 NRHA Futurity & Adequan® North American Affiliate Championship Show, the NRHyA was busy throughout the show. Members hosted their annual Silent Auction, NRHyA Carnival, a Christmas Angel Tree to benefit the Salvation Army and a trip to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum and held their annual Youth Meeting. During the meeting, they said farewell and thank you to the retiring officers and elected their new slate of officers. The candidates worked hard campaigning and sharing their goals for the NRHyA. The goals of the new team are to foster existing youth programs and develop new leadership activities to be implemented in their local affiliates.

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Introduction To 2012 Officer Team

The NRHyA is very excited to present the 2012 NRHyA Officer Team. Leading them is NRHyA President Blair Willette of Arizona. Emma Holbrook from Oklahoma was appointed to the position of NRHyA Vice-President. Jaclynn Brooks of Utah was elected NRHyA Secretary. Holly Lauth of Minnesota is the new Treasurer for the association. The 2012 NRHyA Historian is Amasa Smith of Virginia.

Blair Willette is 16 years old and a junior at Tri-City College Prep High School. In 2011, Willette served as NRHyA Treasurer and is using her experience and leadership skills to plan out this year. She has been competing in reining for five years and won the 2011 NRHA Adequan NAAC Youth 14-18, Unrestricted Youth and NRHA Youth 14-18 classes, all while completing her officer duties. Horses have always been important to Willette and have taught her many life lessons.

Emma Holbrook

Emma Holbrook attends Perry High School as a freshman where she is involved with student council, science club, Business Professionals of America and the Perry Maroons Special Olympics Team. She has been riding and showing reining horses her entire life. Emma and her new horse Hotrod are Palomino World Reserve Champions, and they are also United States Equestrian Federation competitors.

Jaclynn Brooks is a 15-year-old sophomore at Syracuse High School. She has served for the last two

Jaclynn Brooks

years as a Mountain U.S. Region Delegate; she loved working with the Make-A-Wish© Foundation children and the NRHyA youth managers and leaders. She has been around horses her whole life, but started showing reining horses in the youth 10 & under short stirrup class when she was nine. She also loves to ride posse and English, being a Rodeo Queen and in 4-H. In her free time, you will find her texting her friends or riding her horses.

Holly Lauth

Holly Lauth brings leadership skills, a mature attitude, sense of responsibility and officer experience to the NRHyA from her years in FFA, 4-H and serving as a class officer. She is a freshman at Rochester Community and Technical College and will be transferring to a four-year university to finish out her degree in radiology. Lauth has been riding horses her entire life and started showing at the age of 4 in jumping and reining. In her spare time, you will find her either reading a good book or working as a bridal consultant at a wedding gown shop in St. Charles, Minn.

Amasa Smith is a junior in high school. While being home-schooled, she also takes classes at a local

Amasa Smith

college. She participates in many extracurricular activities and holds several leadership positions at the Renaissance School of the Arts. She has been a competitive reiner for the past five years and is a talented pianist, dancer and photographer. A natural leader, Smith brings experience, creativity and enthusiasm to the position of Historian.

For more information on the National Reining Horse Youth Association, find NRHyA online at facebook.com/nrhya or nrhya.com.

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