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About Trainer/Instructor, Jean Green

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Riding and training horses for 30 years, Jean is accomplished in both English and western disciplines, as well as, competitive trail and endurance. Jean has been a horse enthusiast since age 5 when she first started riding. At age 7, her family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas from a farm and left her horseless. She spent her youth seeking out horses where ever she could find them. At the age of 17, she saved enough money to buy a pony and cart. The horse trader that sold her the pony recognized her passion, and enlisted her to prepare and ride horses for sale. She bought a 2 year old filly at one of these sales and started riding in playdays (Western speed events). Since then, she has been envolved with various equestrian activities including reining, western pleasure, hunter/jumpers, competitive trail, endurance, dressage and therapeutic riding. In 1990, the manufacturing plant where she had worked for 17 years shut down and she decided to make her avocation into a business. In order to learn more about horses and particularly therapeutic riding, she started college at age of 40. She attended Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls to get core curricullum and take some classes in education. In 1992, she transfered to Texas A & M, where she graduated Cum Laude in May of 1994 with a degree in Animal Science. Jean concentrated on curriculum recommended for therapeutic riding instructors. While at A&M she coordinated and instructed several projects in riding therapy including a pilot program for Headstart, horsemanship classes for "at risk" youths, and a summer program for learning disabled grade school students. Jean is a North American Riding for the Handicapped Association certified therapeutic riding instructor and a North American Trail Riding Conference horsemanship judge. In 1994, after graduating from TAMU, Jean married Charles DeArmond and moved to his farm in Lawton, OK, where they established Critter Creek Farm. Jean started The Critter Creek Therapeutic Riding Program in the Fall of 1996.

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