About Jamee L. Amundson-Folmer, M.S.
Rafter J Dressage
Awards
1995 Central States Dressage & Combined Training Assoc.
9th Place Junior Dressage Horse - First Level
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it."
-William Arthur Ward
Jamee is a USDF Qualified Rider & Bronze Medalist with over 15 years of dressage experience. She has competed through Fourth Level and trained horses through Grand Prix. She is Nebraska's only Dressage Trainer indentified & inspected by the American Hanoverian Society. She won numerous awards early in her competitive dressage career, but competition always took a back seat to education and training interests. Jamee is fortunate to have a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa State University and a Master of Science degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Both of her degrees are in the field of animal science and have greatly influenced her horsemanship skills.
Jamee offers a wide variety of dressage training programs tailored to the needs of each horse and rider. Jamee is a gifted teacher that communicates not only the hows but the whys of dressage. Jamee's students are taught with a combined focus on a good dressage seat, learning horse training skills and the theoretical knowledge of dressage principles. Jamee incorporates cross training into all lesson and training programs. Her aim is to have each horse happy in his work and she enjoys helping riders achieve their goals, whatever those may be.
1996 Central States Dressage & Combined Training Assoc.
Dressage Festival Champion JR/YR - Second Level
1996 United States Dressage Federation Qualified Rider Award
1999 Dressage at the Woodlands JR/YR 3rd Level High Percentage
2007 Shaggy Horse Dressage Show Open Training Level High Percentage
2007 Final Frontier I Dressage Show Open 3rd Level High Percentage
Jamee has been very fortunate to train with many great teachers of dressage. She served as a working student for USDF Gold Medalist Amy Gessner-Larson and has ridden in clinics with Conrad Schumacher and Felicitas von Neumann-Cosel. Jamee now trains exclusively with Pan Am Games Gold Medal winner Jan Ebeling. In 2007, she was accepted to attend the 3rd Annual Young Dressage Horse Trainer’s Symposium, which started a wonderful working relationship with Scott Hassler and Micheal Klimke. She has been well schooled in the classical German Training method and believes firmly in progression through the training scale.
