Ashleigh Conroy-Zugel
Articles
USDF/Platinum Performance FEI North American Junior and Young Rider Dressage Championships Teams Announced July 10, 2015 (pdf 54.8kb)
The Sky is the Limit - Ashleigh Conroy-Zugel - PSdressage January 3, 2015 (pdf 374kb)
Taking Training into the Show Ring - Ashleigh Conroy-Zugel - PSdressage January 7, 2015 (pdf 337 kb)
Participants Announced for 2015 Robert Dover Horsemastership Clinic - PSdressage October 27, 2014 (pdf 224kb)
Videos
Ashleigh Conroy-Zugel Junior Team Test February 2, 2015 (video)
Ungaro NAJYRC Dressage July 2013 (video)
Victory Gallop at U.S. National Championships 2014 (video)
Highlights Dressage
- Ranked 5th overall in the United States at the International Junior Level (as of August, 2015)
- 17th in the North American Junior and Young Rider Championship (NAJYRC) in the Junior Team test
- 6th overall in Lendon Gray’s Youth Festival Wellington Florida 2015
- Selected for Robert Dover Junior Rider Special Training Clinic in Florida 2015 (only the top 6 junior riders in the country were selected)
- 6th in Festival of Champions Junior level (National Championships) 2014
- 4th North American Junior and Young Rider Championship (NAYJRC) Junior Team Placing for Region 1 in 2013
- 3rd overall in the junior division at the Lendon Gray Youth Festival Wellington Florida 2013
- Numerous wins and placings at the International Junior Level
- Started dressage in 2012
Highlights Biography
- Ashleigh is entering her senior at the Ranney School in Trenton Falls, NJ (2014-2015)
- She started her riding career at age 5 and successfully competed in the 3’ hunter and equitation classes where she placed in hunter jumper competitions such as the Hampton Classic, Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF), Hits on the Hudson Saugerties and Capital Challenge. She transitioned to dressage in November, 2012. The following January, Ashleigh moved up to the junior level. That summer, she won her first junior CDI (international) ribbons at Saugerties, NY, and qualified for the NAJYRC where she helped Region 1 team earn a fourth place finish.
- She has had numerous placings at the Junior CDI Level for 2014 and 2015. Ashleigh also made the Region 1 Team for NAYRC 2015 and was the highest scorer in her team for the Junior Team test for Region 1 with over 65%. The team placed 10th overall.
- She competed in the 2014 Adequan Global Dressage Festival series in Wellington, Fla., notching scores to land her at the 2014 U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions where she ranked 6th overall in the nation.
- Ashleigh is a Just World Ambassador and has helped raise funds by donating her prize money from riding for children’s education in South America.
- Ashleigh has also created a pilot junior ambassador program for the New Jersey Chapter of global Nature Conservancy. Funds raised to date are over $46,000.
- In addition Ashleigh created an Equestrian Team at Ranney School to promote team spirit in the Ranney equestrian community.
Ashleigh Conroy-Zugel - Results
- • 1st Junior Individual Windy Hollow Hunt
- • 1st Junior Team Windy Hollow Hunt
- • 1st Junior Team ESDCTA Memorial Weekend
- • 4th Junior Individual Global Dressage 12 CDI
- • 3rd Junior Team Global Dressage 12 CDI
- • 2nd Junior Freestyle Global Dressage 12 CDI
- • 8th Junior Team Global Dressage 10 CDI
- • 7th Junior Team Global Dressage 10 CDI
- • 4th Junior Freestyle Global Dressage 10 CDI
- • 1st Junior Individual White Fences FL
- • 1st Junior Team White Fences FL
- • 1st Junior Freestyle White Fences FL
- • 5th Junior Individual Global Dressage 7
- • 5th Junior Team Global Dressage 7
- • 1st Junior Team Gold Coast Opener
- • 1st Junior Individual Gold Coast Opener
- 6th Overall at the Festival of Champions National Championship as a Junior rider
- 7th Junior Team Global Dressage 12 CDI
- 6th Junior Individual Global Dressage 12 CDI
- 6th Junior Team Global Dressage 10 CDI
- 5th Junior Individual Global Dressage 10 CDI
- • 1st Junior Individual Hits on the Hudson CDI
- • 1st Junior Team Events at HITS on the Hudson on Ungaro. First CDI win.
- • Ashleigh represented Region 1 in the 2013 NAJYRC and the team was fourth in her first international competition. Ashleigh was 11th overall in the team test.
- • 1st Junior Freestyle at Centerline at Westbrook Hunt Club on Ungaro
- • 5th Junior Individual at Westbrook Hunt Club on Ungaro
- • 1st Junior Team at Centerline at Westbrook Hunt Club on Ungaro
- • 4th Junior Individual at Mystic Valley Hunt Club on Ungaro
- • 1st Junior Individual at ESDCTA Memorial Weekend Dressage on Ungaro
- • 1st Junior Team at ESDCTA Memorial Weekend Dressage on Ungaro
- • 6th Junior Individual WEF Dressage Classic on Rolex at the Lendon Gray Youth Festival
- • 5th Junior Team WEF Dressage Classic on Rolex at the Lendon Gray Youth Festival 3rd overall
- • 1st Junior Individual at Welcome Back to White Fences 1 on Rolex