McDonald served as US Equestrian’s Dressage Development Coach before taking on the Technical Advisor role. She has spent over a decade advancing athlete-and-horse combinations through the U.S. dressage pipeline. Her success has proved contagious as a personal coach having guided three of her athletes and their horses to the Olympics, including 2012 London participants Adrienne Lyle and Wizard and Rio 2016 team bronze medalists Laura Graves and Verdades and Kasey Perry-Glass and Gorklintgaards Dublet. As an athlete, McDonald heavily contributed to U.S. Dressage’s early accomplishments due to her impressive achievements with the chestnut Hanoverian mare Brentina. Their string of accolades included a 1999 Pan American Games team and individual gold medal, an Athens 2004 Olympic team bronze medal, a WEG 2002 team silver and 2006 team bronze medal, and was the first American to win a FEI World Cup Dressage Final in 2003.

Katherine Bateson Chandler was a member of the U.S. team for the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky, riding Jane Clark’s KWPN gelding, Nartan. She went on to represent the U.S. team at the FEI Nations Cup CDIO3* at Hickstead (GBR) in 2014 riding Welnetta, a 2003 Dutch mare also owned by Clark.

Bateson Chandler had a long and successful partnership with Clark’s 2005 Dutch gelding, Alcazar, who she rode at the FEI levels beginning in 2013 through 2023. The pair represented the U.S. at FEI Nations Cup competitions including the as part of the second-place team at CHIO Aachen (GER) in 2016, bronze medal-winning teams at Hickstead in 2017, Compiègne (FRA) in 2019, and Aachen in 2019. In 2020 and 2021, they helped the U.S. to the podium on home turf, winning first and second, respectively, in the FEI Nations Cups in Wellington, Fla.

With her own and Jennifer Huber’s 2012 KWPN mare, Haute Couture, Bateson Chandler has had top results at the CDI3* and CDI4* level at home and abroad, including wins at WEC Ocala in 2023, a second-place finish at Hartpury (GBR) in 2023, and at the Adequan® Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Fla., in 2024.

Ben Ebeling started in the youth ranks of dressage before moving on to top results at the senior level. He rode Behlinger at the Adequan^®/FEI North American Youth Championships in 2017 and 2018, winning team gold in 2017. With Behlinger, Ebeling was part of the first-place team at the CDI-Y Young Riders competition at Del Mar in 2018, where he placed second in the young rider individual and freestyle. In 2018 and 2019, Ebeling was a member of the Hagen CDIO-Y team for the USEF Dressage Young Rider European Tour. With Illuster Van De Kampert, Ebeling scored wins in the CDI-U25 Grand Prix 16-25 and Grand Prix Freestyle at week eight of the 2020 Adequan Global Dressage Festival (AGDF). Two weeks later, the pair helped the U.S. Stars and Stripes Team earn gold in the FEI Nations Cup CDIO-U25, again winning the CDI-U25 Grand Prix 16-25 and Grand Prix Freestyle.

Ebeling had an excellent start to 2021 moving to the senior ranks, winning the CDI3* Grand Prix and Grand Prix Special with Illuster Van De Kampert during week seven of AGDF. He made his senior team debut at the FEI Dressage Nations Cup CDIO3* USA with Illuster Van De Kampert, helping The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team collect silver. The pair was second in the CDIO3* Grand Prix Freestyle and third in the Grand Prix Special. For their results, Ebeling and Illuster Van De Kampert were named to the Short List for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In the fall, the pair represented The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team at the CHIO Aachen CDIO5* Nations Cup, helping the team to a fourth-place finish.

In 2022, Ebeling had a successful start to the season at the AGDF with Indeed, Illuster Van De Kampert, and Status Royal OLD. Ebeling and Indeed helped The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team earn silver in the FEI Dressage Nations Cup CDIO3* USA. Ebeling was named to the Short List for the 2022 FEI Dressage World Championships with Indeed and Illuster Van De Kampert. Ebeling and Indeed again represented the U.S. team at the FEI Dressage Nations Cups in France and Germany. Ebeling partnered with Illuster Van De Kampert at FEI Dressage Nations Cup Netherlands, helping the U.S. team earn silver.

Ebeling had another strong start to the season in Florida in 2023. He and Status Royal OLD were members of the winning CDIOU25 U.S. team during the FEI Dressage Nations Cup USA, earning first in the CDIOU25 Intermediate II, second in the Grand Prix 16-25, and third in the Freestyle. Over the summer in Europe, Ebeling secured wins with Status Royal OLD in CDUI25 classes and Indeed in CDI4* classes. Ebeling and Indeed also helped the U.S. team to a sixth-place finish in the FEI Dressage Nations Cup Netherlands. Back stateside in the fall, the pair finished in the top two in CDI-W classes at Dressage at Devon and TerraNova. 

Ebeling began 2024 by sweeping the Desert Dressage CDI-W classes with Indeed. 

Ebeling trains with his father, Olympian Jan Ebeling, at their farm in Florida, as well as with Christoph Koschel.

Born and raised in Whidbey Island, Wash., horses have always been a part of Adrienne Lyle’s life. Beginning in the United States Pony Club, and growing up with only occasional group riding lessons, Lyle qualified for and competed in the North American Youth Championship in 2004 riding Miguel. She went on to ride with her future coach, Olympian Debbie McDonald, as a working student in 2005.

In 2006, Lyle earned the ride on Wizard, the 1999 Oldenburg gelding, owned by Peggy and Parry Thomas. The combination would move to the Grand Prix level together and win numerous prestigious titles, including the 2008 USEF Young Adult Brentina Cup. In 2012, they represented the U.S. at the Olympics in London, and in 2014 competed at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Normandy.

In 2018, Lyle and Salvino competed on all three U.S. Dressage Nations Cup teams, helping the U.S. earn gold at FEI Dressage Nations Cup™ USA, bronze at FEI Dressage Nations Cup The Netherlands, and silver at FEI Dressage Nations Cup Germany before being named to the team that ultimately won the team silver medal at the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018.

Lyle and Salvino were part of the bronze medal-winning team at the 2019 FEI Dressage Nations Cup Germany CDIO5* at CHIO Aachen. In 2020, Lyle rode Harmony’s Duval on the team that won gold at the FEI Dressage Nations Cup USA CDIO3* in Wellington, Fla. The pair repeated the feat at the 2021 FEI Dressage Nations Cup USA, where they also swept the individual standings in the FEI Grand Prix, FEI Grand Prix Special, and FEI Grand Prix Freestyle to Music.

Lyle and Salvino went on to be named to the team for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, where they won the team silver medal. In 2022, the pair traveled to CHIO Aachen where they finished in second place in the CDI4* FEI Grand Prix. They were selected for the U.S. Dressage Team at the FEI World Championships in Denmark that year.

Jennifer Schrader-Williams is a professional dressage trainer who operates Summervale Farm near Seattle, Wash. In 2010, she was awarded the $25,000 Anne Barlow Ramsay Grant to campaign an American-bred horse internationally, which she used to travel to and train in Germany with HS Wistar.

Schrader-Williams has had success in Grand Prix competition at the international level in recent years with Millione Partners LLC’s Danish Warmblood gelding, Millione. In 2019, the pair won the CDI3* Grand Prix and Grand Prix Special at the 2019 Golden State Dressage Festival and the CDI-W Grand Prix and Grand Prix Freestyle to Music in Temecula, Calif. In 2020, they placed first in the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Freestyle at the U.S. Dressage Festival of Champions to win the USEF Grand Prix Dressage National Championship. In 2021, the pair made their senior team debut at the FEI Dressage Nations Cup CDIO3* USA, helping The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team earn the silver medal.