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ETS DIRECTOR AND HEAD CLINICIAN:
Jim Arrigon, USEF Hunter Equitation judge, ETS Founder and Director. Beckett Run Riding LLC, North Carolina.
He coached at 41 National Team Championships (28 IHSA, 10 IEA, and 3 NCAA), is credited with more than 30 National Champion blue ribbons and 19 IHSA Regional Champion Teams with Murray State University, Miami University of Ohio, Ohio State, and Liberty University.
His Beckett Run team was 2009 IEA National Champs, the first “barn” team to beat the prep schools. He is the only person to coach National Champion teams in NCAA, IHSA, and IEA, and was also team captain on two-time IHSA National Champion teams in college.
More recently, he designed and built the Liberty University Equestrian Center and coached Liberty to Regional Champion Team and Holiday Tournament Champion team in 2017-18, and Ohio University to 4th Place at 2019 Tournament Series.
His Miami University team was Top 6 at IHSA Nationals 11 times in a 15 year stretch, won 3 Tournament of Champions and Series Champion, and won NCAA National Invitational Championship twice. IHSA’s
Arrigon served as Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association National Secretary for 25 years, honored with IHSA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
He stays very busy judging USEF hunter and equitation, and state hunter jumper association shows in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and North and South Carolina, as well as IHSA and IEA horse shows, including Regionals and Zone Championships. He also judged the 2023 National Snaffle Bit Association World Championship Show in Oklahoma.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Kentucky, and a Masters degree in Equine Nutrition.
His son, Matt Arrigon, rode for Jim at Miami University, was a Team Captain, and coached National Champs of his own at University of Lynchburg and St. Andrews University. Daughter, Hallie, was a Team Captain for Vanderbilt University. His wife was a longtime IEA Director, former Mayor of Gibson, North Carolina, and runs a horse show management business.
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Upcoming Dates:
2024-2025 ETS BOOT CAMP and ETS MEDAL EVENTS ON THE SCHEDULE... (BeckettRunRiding@gmail.com for info / entry packet). Could add more as time goes on.
ETS Seattle - August 13-15, 2024 at Sharkey Farm
ETS Baltimore—August 20, 2024 at Goucher College
ETS Virginia Tech—September 7-8, 2024 at Blacksburg, VA
ETS Philadelphia—September 14-15, 2024, at Delaware Valley
University, PA
ETS Hollins University - November 9-10, 2024, at Roanoke, VA
ETS Sweet Briar College—December 8, 2024, at Lynchburg, VA
...more to come!
Tentatively...
ETS Goucher College—January 2025, Towson, Maryland
ETS MEDAL - January 2025 @ SCAD, Savannah, Georgia
ETS New England – February 2025 at Mount Holyoke College, MA
ETS Illinois—March 2025 at Jamie Gerardi Equestrian, Urbana
ETS MEDAL - March 2025 @ University of Findlay, Ohio
ETS Indiana—April 2025 at St Mary-of-the-Woods College,
Terre Haute
ETS Hollins, May 2025, at Roanoke, VA
ETS Ohio—May 2025 at University of Findlay
PLUS... soon to announce,,,
ETS Texas
ETS Kentucky
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