Will Coleman began his riding career when he was just six years old, learning to ride in the hunt fields and in the show jumping ring under the tutelage of his father, who was also an avid horseman. Coleman’s interest in eventing was cultivated through an apprenticeship with famed eventing greats Karen and David O’Connor. In 2001, Coleman was the gold medalist at the North American Youth Championships. In 2003, Coleman became the first, and to date only, U.S. athlete to win the Bramham CCI4*-L Under-25 with Fox in Flight in the United Kingdom.

Coleman has added numerous accolades to his record, highlighted by representing the U.S. team at the London 2012 Olympic Games with Twizzel, the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018 with Tight Lines, and as part of the silver medal-winning team at the 2022 FEI Eventing World Championships in Pratoni with Off the Record.

Coleman and Off The Record have a strong competitive history together. The pair won the 2018 Great Meadow International CCIO4*-S, 2019 Jersey Fresh International CCI4*-S, and 2021 Carolina International CCI4*-S. They also finished second in the 2020 MARS Great Meadow International CCI4*-S and third in the 2019 Tattersalls CCI4*-L. The pair was seventh individually at the 2022 FEI Eventing World Championships and the 2023 Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by MARS Equestrian^TM CCI5*-L.

In 2022, Coleman was a USEF Equestrian of Honor and was awarded the William C. Steinkraus Trophy at the USEF Pegasus Awards.

Coleman and his wife Katie operate Will Coleman Equestrian, and they have a daughter named Charlie and a son named West.

Ariel Grald launched her international eventing career as part of the Area I team at the North American Youth Championships in 2004. In 2014, she was named to the USEF Under 25 Developing Riders List. That same year, she earned her first win at the FEI level, riding LBF Oleagh’s Image to first place in the CCI3*-S at Carolina International.

In 2014, Grald began her partnership with Leamore Master Plan, a then-five-year-old Irish Sport Horse owned by Annie Eldridge. The pair made their five-star debut together in 2019 at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI5*-L, where they finished in 12th place. They went on to compete at the 2019 Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, finishing 10th overall and as the highest-placed Burghley first timer. In 2021, Grald and “Simon” placed third at the Lumühlen CCI5*-L. In 2022, the pair won the Maryland CCI4*-S and finished 11th individually at the FEI Eventing World Championships in Pratoni, Italy.

Grald was a 2019 recipient of the Jaqueline B. Mars International Grant and was named to the USEF Development Training List in 2019 and 2020.

Boyd Martin, the son of Olympic speed skater Toy (Dorgan) Martin and Olympic cross-country skier Ross Martin, began riding at a young age in his native Australia. He won his first CCI4* (now known as CCI5*, the highest level of eventing) at the 2003 Australian International Three-Day Event riding True Blue Toozac.

He moved to the U.S. in 2007 to further his career as an eventing professional, serving as the assistant trainer to Olympian Phillip Dutton for two years before starting his own business. Martin began riding for the U.S. in 2009.

Martin is a three-time Olympian, representing the U.S. in London 2012, Rio de Janeiro 2016, and Tokyo 2020. He is a three-time U.S. Eventing Team member for the FEI World Equestrian Games. With Pancho Villa, he was a member of the U.S. team that won gold at the 2015 Pan American Games. In 2019, he won team and individual gold at the Pan American Games with Tsetserleg TSF.

In 2021, Martin won the inaugural Maryland 5 Star with Christine, Thomas, and Tommie Turner’s Anglo European mare, On Cue, becoming the first American to win a CCI5* since 2008. Martin has twice been the USEF CCI5*-L Eventing National Champion at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, in 2019 with Tsetserleg TSF and in 2021 with On Cue.

In 2022, Martin finished fourth overall at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, becoming the USEF CCI5* Eventing Reserve National Champion with Tsetserleg TSF. In May, he won the CCI4*-L at the Tryon International Equestrian Center with the Annie Goodwin Syndicate’s Federman B.

Martin and his wife, Grand Prix dressage rider Silva Martin, own and operate their Pennsylvania farm, Windurra USA. They have two sons, Nox and Leo Rossco.

Lauren Nicholson (née Kieffer) began riding at the age of six and competed in her first horse trials at the age of 12. As a high school graduation present, Kieffer participated in a week-long eventing summer camp with Olympians David and Karen O’Connor, which led to a six-year working student position. Her talent and work ethic helped her reach the top levels of the sport and represent her country in international championships.

Nicholson was a member of the U.S. Eventing Team at the 2016 Olympic Games with the Dutch Warmblood mare, Veronica, and the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games with her Anglo Arabian gelding, Vermiculus. In 2015, she won team gold at the Pan American Games in Toronto riding Meadowbrook’s Scarlett.

Nicholson won team bronze in 2005 and team silver in 2007 at the North American Youth Championship with her Anglo-Arabian gelding, Snooze Alarm, a full brother to her future WEG partner, Vermiculus. She made her debut at the CCI5*-L level in 2010, when she and Snooze Alarm completed the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event.

Since then, Nicholson has had numerous top finishes at the five-star level, including finishing in second place overall and as the highest-placed U.S. athlete at the Kentucky Three-Day Event in 2014 and 2016 with Veronica, where she won the title of USEF CCI5*-L Eventing National Champion. The pair also had top-ten finishes at the CCI5*-L level at Pau in 2014 and Badminton in 2018. With Vermiculus, Nicholson finished in the top ten in the CCI5* events at Kentucky in 2018 and 2019, Burghley in 2019, and at Lumühlen in 2022. She finished in the top ten with Landmark’s Monte Carlo at the inaugural Maryland 5 Star CCI5* in 2021.

Tamra “Tamie” Smith was a member of the U.S. Eventing Team that won gold at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, with Ellen and Alexandra Ahearn and Eric Markell’s German Sport Horse, Mai Baum. In 2021, Smith took Mai Baum to a top-10 finish in his CCI5*-L debut at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. That year, they were named as the reserve for the U.S. Eventing Team for the Tokyo Olympics.

Smith has represented the U.S. in FEI Nations Cup competitions, including the CCIO4*-S at CHIO Aachen with Mai Baum and the CCIO4*-L at Boekelo, both in 2021.

Smith was the 2020 USEF CCI3*-L Eventing National Champion with Elliot-V at the Galway Downs International Event, and at the same event finished second in the CCI4*-L with Passepartout. In 2021, she and Mai Baum won the Grand Prix Eventing Showcase at Bruce’s Field. Smith went on to finish second in the CCI4*-S at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event and third at the Jersey Fresh CCI4*-L with Envogue. With Solaguayre California, Smith won the CCI3*-S at Red Hills International and the CCI3*-L at Jersey Fresh. She closed out the 2021 season with a win in the CCI3*-L at Galway Downs International with Maitanzer.

In 2022, Smith and Mai Baum competed in the Badminton Horse Trials CCI5* where they finished in ninth place. Smith was second and third in The Event at Rebecca Farm CCI4*-S with Solaguayre California and Danito, respectively. Smith and Mai Baum were second in the Great Meadows International CCI4*-S, then headed to the FEI Eventing World Championships in Pratoni, Italy, where they helped the U.S. team earn silver and finished ninth indivudally. Smith closed out the season with a win in the Morven Park CCI4*-L with Solaguayre California and a second-place finish at the Maryland 5 Star CCI5*-L with Danito. 

In 2023, Smith was first, second, and fifth in the Galway Downs Spring CCI4*-S with Mai Baum, Danito, and Solaguayre California, respectively. Smith and Mai Baum earned a historic win at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event presented by MARS Equestrian^TM CCI5*-L as the first U.S. combination to win since 2008. 

Smith has trained horses and riders at her Next Level Eventing since 2005.