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Vanessa Bartsch, Head Coach
As the Executive Director of Equestrian and Head Coach of the Equestrian Team, Bartsch has led the team to sixteen Regional and Zone Championships, as well as over a dozen Top-Ten National Championship Finishes (8 in the Top-Five), including 28 individual National Championships and Res. Championships. A former student athlete at Stanford, Bartsch returned to the Red Barn full time during the 2004 season to lead the renovation and reopening of the stables under the management of Stanford Athletics. Bartsch was awarded the IHSA Coaches Award in 2006.
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Tina Davey, Coach
Davey joined Stanford’s team in 2016, bringing extensive experience as a trainer and coach, helping Stanford to several successful post seasons during her time on The Farm. Prior to Stanford, Davey served as the as the Director of Equestrian Programs at Mississippi College, maintained a boutique show barn, and ran Elvenstar’s Orange County training barn, where one of her roles was coaching the University of California, Irvine’s IHSA team. A former student athlete (and co-captain) on the University of California, Santa Cruz Equestrian Team, Davey helps teach and mentor Stanford’s IHSA and IEA Teams, in addition to serving as a program director to the Riding Academy.
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Katie Steiner, Coach
Steiner joined the Stanford coaching staff in 2018, and works closely with both the IHSA and IEA teams, including serving as the Head Coach of Stanford’s successful Red Barn and Woodside IEA Teams. In addition to coaching the Red Barn IEA Team to a National Championship in 2021, Steiner has helped coach Stanford’s IHSA team and riders to multiple postseason. As an undergraduate, Steiner won the coveted Cacchione Cup in 2017 at the IHSA National Finals for Centenary College. In addition to her coaching experience, Steiner has worked for Denize Borges, Scott Stewart, and studied under equitation legend, Karen Healey.
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Kate Douglas, Dressage Coach
Douglas began competing in dressage in 2005 under the tutelage of Katie Hoefs Martin. She won the 2013 Region 7 Second Level Jr/Yr Champion on Fein Style, the 2014 Reserve Champion Silver Stirrup National Award on Don Marco, and was top 20 Third Level Open at the 2015 US Dressage Finals on Don Marco. Kate has consistently placed top three in Year-End Awards from USEF, USDF, CDS, Performance Horse Registry, and the American Hanoverian Society. She has ridden in multiple clinics with US Olympian Lisa Wilcox as well Former FEI 5* Judge Axel Steiner. She has trained multiple horses up from prospect to successful upper level dressage horses and uses her training and show experience to guide the Stanford Dressage team.
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Logan Hehn, Western Coach
Hehn joined the Western coaching staff in 2021 after a vast and varied background in equestrian and theatrical pursuits. Hehn’s strength is in fundamentals and position work thanks to his background as a competitor, as well as a vaulter. During his undergraduate career at Stanford, Hehn served as Captain of the Western Team and competed at the Regional, Semi-Finals and National Finals (with two trips to the post season).
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Gwyn Gordon, Hunt Seat Coach
Gordon, a co-founder of the Stanford Equestrian Team, spent stints working for Richard Spooner, Patty Ball, Constance Kilmartin, Lucie Wharton, and Steve & Jenny Newell. Gordon served as the Head Coach of the Team in the 90′s, a volunteer position at the time, after starting Cardinal Farms in 1993. In addition to being a co-collaborator with Coach Bartsch, and former Wester Coach, Jana Cain in the efforts to renovate the Red Barn in 2004 (she still serves on the Red Barn Advisory Board), Gordon returned to the coaching staff where she has served as a clinician and coach for the Hunt Seat Team for the past dozen years, helping coach riders to the Zone and National Finals.
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