Our American partner website Dressagedaily published the scoop that American Olympic team rider Lisa Wilcox is moving back to the United States. After twelve years living training and competing in Europe, Wilcox is leaving her current employer Dr Samuel Schatzmann
in Switzerland and returning home.
Wilcox plans on moving to Florida in March 2006, where she will set up a small training operation with her sister Stephanie and long time friend and manager Cindy Snowdon. Lisa’s plan is to take no more than 11 horses in training so she can focus on the horses and clients/students riding with her.
As an American living and competing in Europe, Wilcox has had to qualify for the USET by earning higher percentage points than her teammates qualifying in the USA. In spite of the difficulty of this situation, she succeeded in making two US Teams, and has been an invaluable asset to the United States by being a well spoken and well represented ambassador of the sport of Dressage in Europe.
Nevertheless, she is nervous about the huge change about to take place in her life. "I left for Germany 12 years ago with no fear and great expectations. It's odd, but now that I am returning home, I am more nervous than I was back then." Wilcox has returned to America throughout her time in Europe to do several well received and successful clinics, including the 2004 USDF Symposium. The attractive well spoken and richly experienced rider and trainer has nothing to be nervous about at all.
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