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Holly Corcoran

Hometown: Stroudsburg, Pa. Birthday: 8/11/1963 Sport/Disciplines: Endurance

Holly Corcoran began competing in endurance riding at the FEI level in 2011 and has been a proflific competitor ever since. She has a long and successful partnership with Poete, her 2007 Arabian gelding, who she has ridden in endurance rides since 2013. In 2024, Corcoran was named to the U.S. Endurance Team for the FEI Endurance World Championship for Seniors with Lorienn and as an alternate with Poete.


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Heidi Perreault

Hometown: Hillsborough, N.C. Sport/Disciplines: Endurance

Heidi Perreault is a North Carolina-based small animal veterinarian. She made her FEI endurance debut in 2020, completing her first CEI1* rides with Tru Beau Sardi, a 2013 Arabian gelding owned by Cheryl Van Deusen. In 2023, Perreault partnered with Favailas Marechal, a 2015 Arabian stallion owned by Marilyn Lemoine Pesce of France. In 2024, the pair completed CEI3* rides at Saint-Barthélémy-de-Vals and Compiègne ahead of the 2024 FEI Endurance World Championship for Seniors, where they were named to the U.S. team.


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Jeremy Reynolds

Hometown: Dunnellon, Fla. Birthday: 1/16/1980 Sport/Disciplines: Endurance

Jeremy Reynolds is a longtime endurance competitor who represented the U.S. at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France, and at the 2012 Longines FEI Endurance World Championships in the Great Britain. Reynolds has won several CEI3* 160 rides with his current top mount, Treasured Moments, including the test event for the 2022 FEI World Championships in its original location of Verona, Italy.


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Kelsey Russell

Hometown: Williston, Fla. Birthday: 10/23/1995 Sport/Disciplines: Endurance

Kelsey Russell has competed in endurance riding on the international stage since her youth. In 2011, she won individual and team gold at the North American Youth Championships riding My Wild Irish Gold. The pair finished fifth at the 2013 FEI Endurance World Championship for Juniors and Young Riders in Tarbes, France, and went on to represent the U.S. on the senior team for the 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy before earning a final NAYC double-gold result in 2015. In 2018, Russell was selected for the FEI World Equestrian Games team in Tryon, N.C., riding Fireman Gold. Russell has ridden Juno Im Gold, Valerie Kanavy’s 2015 Half-Arabian gelding, throughout his FEI endurance career beginning in 2021, and the pair have successfully completed every FEI ride they’ve contested. Russell and Juno Im Gold were named to the U.S. team for the 2024 FEI Endurance World Championship for Seniors.


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Cheryl Van Deusen

Hometown: New Smyrna Beach, Fla. Birthday: 12/11/1958 Sport/Disciplines: Endurance

Van Deusen has won the Maggy Price Endurance Excellence Award every year since 2017. This award is presented annually to the top U.S. senior endurance rider. With her 2004 Arabian gelding, Hoover the Mover, Van Deusen was part of the U.S. team for the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018. In 2023, she was again named to the U.S. team for the FEI Endurance World Championship in the United Arab Emirates with her own 2012 Arabian gelding, JG General, and the FEI Pan American Championship in Chile with Maxi Wimmer’s 2012 mare, C.L. Misteriosa.