Kirstin Hill Contact Information San Diego, CA kirstin.a.hill@gmail.com 619-490-6707

Kirstin grew up in the Bay Area (Menlo Park) but currently resides in San Diego, CA with her fiance. Horses and riding have been a part of her life since she was a young girl. Her earliest experiences started as being a groom for local polo players. Later on she discovered and joined the United States Pony Club with her first pony, Paddington. Pony Club has provided her the best foundation for learning horse-care fundamentals, team participation with sportsmanship and correct riding techniques. Members are rated and move up the levels based on their progression of riding skills and horse management knowledge. Kirstin is currently rated through the C-3 (traditional) and is going for the H-A (highest horse management level) this summer (July 2010). While in Pony Club Kirstin also successfully competed on an Irish Sport Horse named Limerick through training level eventing. Her most notable accomplishment on Limerick was qualifying for Pony Club Championships in dressage in Lexington, KY during the summer of 2007. Kirstin's lessons and tireless practicing paid off with her taking home 1st place for the highest rated training level freestyle as well as leading her team to an overall first. Currently Kirstin has been a working student for the past two years for an eventing trainer/Pony Club National Examiner in Ramona, CA. Aside from horses, Kirstin has always had a passion for fitness, especially Pilates, and eating right. This led to her pursuing and earning her B.S. in Foods and Nutrition from San Diego State University. Her goal is to earn her R.D. (Registered Dietitian-a food expert, not the same as a nutritionist) license in order to credibly counsel people about food and nutrition. As a step towards earning this license, she must first complete a dietetic internship, which she just landed at the VA in San Diego. It will begin this August and end the following May. Kirstin is most excited about this because she wants to combine her EQUESTRIAN PILATES® services with nutritional services to offer her clients the most complete and optimal package for benefiting their health and well-being as people and riders. Kirstin has truly found her niche by being able to combine her passion for riding and health/well-being and knows she will be able to offer her clients nothing but the best!