{"id":8990,"date":"2019-04-04T14:20:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T20:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=8990"},"modified":"2019-04-04T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T20:21:23","slug":"apha-and-interscholastic-equestrian-association-announce-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/apha-and-interscholastic-equestrian-association-announce-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"APHA and Interscholastic Equestrian Association announce alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/LogoEmailHoriz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/LogoEmailHoriz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>The Interscholastic Equestrian Association and the American Paint Horse Association have joined forces as affiliate partners.<br \/>\nWith this alliance, IEA and APHA will cross-promote across both organizations in a variety of methods and venues beginning in 2019 that will include benefits and discounts for both IEA and APHA members. APHA will also provide sponsorship of the \u201cMost Valuable Paint Horse\u201d award at both the 2019 IEA Hunt-Seat and Western National Finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely pleased to partner with APHA,\u201d IEA Co-Founder and Executive Director Roxane Durant said. \u201cBoth IEA and APHA are committed to working with other organizations to achieve shared goals and ideals in promoting equestrian involvement. The versatility of the Paint Horse breed is a great fit for the diversity of programs we offer in IEA\u2014all centered on young riders. We are especially thrilled to work with APHA to help<br \/>\nstrengthen our Western program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IEA introduces students in grades 4\u201312 to horses and equestrian sports via team and competition environments. Horse ownership is not a requirement of participation, and riders compete on unfamiliar horses to demonstrate their horsemanship or equitation in hunt-seat, Western or dressage classes. IEA participants also have the opportunity to earn college scholarships through competition and sportsmanship activities. IEA\u2019s promotion of both horses and education draw a parallel to APHA\u2019s Youth scholarship efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to partner with IEA,\u201d APHA Executive Director Billy Smith said. \u201cEducation and youth development are at the forefront of all we do. This alliance will not only benefit both organizations, but more importantly, help expand the horizons of young equestrians everywhere.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re looking forward to working together to offer even more opportunities to youth aboard American Paint Horses.\u201d<br \/>\n##<\/p>\n<p>From the Paint Horse Journal and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/apha.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apha.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Interscholastic Equestrian Association and the American Paint Horse Association have joined forces as affiliate partners. With this alliance, IEA and APHA will cross-promote across both organizations in a variety of methods and venues beginning in 2019 that will include benefits and discounts for both IEA and APHA members. APHA will also provide sponsorship of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,14],"tags":[1137,1136],"class_list":["post-8990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apha","category-industry","tag-american-paint-horse-association","tag-interscholastic-equestrian-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8992,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990\/revisions\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}