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Trista Armstrong joins the Baylor equestrian staff as assistant coach in the program's inaugural season. "We are thrilled to have someone with Trista's qualifications and experience join our program," head coach Ellen White said. "This is a great partnership, because I believe our skills match and complement each other nicely and will give our riders the best opportunity to be successful." Armstrong spent two season as an assistant coach at Fresno State before arriving in Waco in May 2005. Her main responsibility is instructing riders for Western competition, while White handles the English side. Fresno State Western riders went undefeated against regional competition during the two season's Armstrong coached, earning Regional and Zone championships and reserve National champion status at the 2004 IHSA National Championships and reserve National champion status at the 2005 Varsity Equestrian National Champships. Armstrong also guide four individual riders to National champion status, including one AQHA trophy reserve title, and three riders to the NRHA Derby Collegiate Reining. Prior to Fresno State, Armstrong was an assistant coach at Ohio State from 2002-03 and a teaching assistant at her alma mater, Oklahoma State, in 2001. Her coaching experience also extends overseas, where she taught Western Horsemanship and showed Reining and Western Pleasure horses for Teglgard Ranch in Denmark. As a member of the Cowgirls' equestrian team at Oklahoma State, Armstrong placed in the top four in the individual Open Western Horsemanship and Reining helping Zone 7 claim the National Zone Championship in 2000. That same year Oklahoma State reached National champion status. In 2001, Armstrong captured the Alumni Western Horsemanship title at the IHSA National Championships. As a youth rider, Armstrong was an AQHYA World Show attendee and was the youth world champion in Western Pleasure, Reining and Halter under the American Buckskin Registry Association. |
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