PRESIDENT
Blair Willette is 16 years old and a junior at Tri-City College Prep High School. In 2011, Willette served as NRHyA Treasurer and is using her experience and leadership skills to plan out this year. She has been competing in Reining for five years and won the 2011 NRHA Adequan® North American Affiliate Championship youth 14-18, unrestricted youth, and NRHA youth 14-18 classes, all while completing her officer duties. Horses have always been important to Willette and have taught her many life lessons. |
VICE PRESIDENT
 Emma Holbrook attends Perry High School as a freshman where she is involved with Student Council, Science Club, Business Professionals of America, and the Perry Maroons Special Olympics Team. She has been riding and showing reining horses her entire life. Emma and her new horse Hotrod are Reserve Palomino World Champions, and they are also United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) competitors. |
SECRETARY
 Jaclynn Brooks is a 15-year-old sophomore at Syracuse High School. She has served for the last two years as a Mountain U.S. Region Delegate; she loved working with the Make-A-Wish© Foundation children and the NRHyA youth managers and leaders. She has been around horses her whole life, but started showing reining horses in the youth 10 & under short stirrup class when she was nine. She also loves to ride Posse and English, being a Rodeo Queen and 4-H. In her free time you will find her texting her friends or riding her horses. |
TREASURER
 Holly Lauth brings leadership skills, a mature attitude, sense of responsibility and officer experience to the NRHyA from her years in FFA, 4-H and serving as a Class Officer. She is a freshman at Rochester Community and Technical College and will be transferring to a four-year university to finish out her degree in radiology. Lauth has been riding horses her entire life and started showing at the age of four in jumping and Reining. In her spare time, you will find her either reading a good book or working as a bridal consultant at a wedding gown shop in St. Charles, Minnesota. |
HISTORIAN
 Amasa Smith is a junior in high school. While being home-schooled, she also takes classes at a local college. She participates in many extracurricular activities and holds several leadership positions at the Renaissance School of the Arts. She has been a competitive reiner for the past five years and is a talented pianist, dancer and photographer. A natural leader, Smith brings experience, creativity and enthusiasm to the position of Historian. |