USA Equestrian Releases Governance Document

Source :  USA Equestrian Inc.

USA Equestrian today released a comprehensive report on the sport's
governance in preparation for a meeting with the United States Olympic
Committee (USOC) Membership and Credentials Committee in Miami, Florida,
this Saturday. USA Equestrian is the National Federation for the sport, as
recognized by its International Federation, the FEI, headquartered in
Switzerland.


The lengthy document was prepared in response to inquiries from the USOC in
a letter dated November 25, 2002, announcing the meeting and inviting the
Federation to respond.


In addition, USA Equestrian released a letter dated December 9, 2002,
requesting details and making suggestions about the format of the upcoming
meeting, to which it has received no response as yet.


USA Equestrian Executive Director Lori Rawls, who supervised preparation of
the report, commented, "We've been working every day on our response since
we received the USOC letter just before Thanksgiving. Our staff, our
lawyers, and our officers all contributed to it. We looked at this as a
very positive opportunity to gather together so many different aspects of
what we do, and how the sport's governance works, all into one place. We
think it is going to be very educational for the USOC and everyone who is
interested in how the sport should be governed, and how we got to this
point."


Rawls noted that the USOC letter of November 25, the Federation's responses,
and its exhibits, are all available at
www.equestrian.org/EquestrianGovernance. She stated that certain exhibits
relating to employment contracts have been redacted for reasons of privacy.