REQUIREMENTS FOR SQUAD MEMBERSHIP
These apply to ALL High Performance / Recognition / Young Rider / Development squad riders.
- Coaching clinics will be organized for riders predominantly for Show Jumping and Cross Country.
- Squad members are be encouraged to attend as many clinics as possible.
- A minimum of two on-horse clinics must be attended (when provided) in each six-month period (i.e., Jan -June / July to December) by all squad riders except the 95 Squad. Please contact the squad coordinator if there is any reason this might not be possible.
- Clinics are to be attended as listed horse/athlete combinations.
- Participation in any off-horse program is compulsory. Please contact Squad Coordinator if there is a genuine reason participation is not possible.
- Participation in clinics and the off-horse program will be taken into account when squad membership is reviewed every six months.
- Squad shirts must be worn on clinic days by High Performance, Recognition, Young Rider, and Development Squad riders.
- Athletes must be financial members of Equestrian SA throughout the season.
- Horses must be registered with Equestrian Australia.
- Horses MUST have a current Equestrian SA eventing competition license.
- Squad applications will only be accepted from riders with Australian sports nationality. Riders with other sports nationalities residing in South Australia may attend squad activities by invitation. (see https://inside.fei.org/fei/your-role/athletes/sport-nationality)
- If a place is available squad riders will be able to attend clinics with a substitute horse on a user-pays basis due to the following:
- Sale of squad horse
- Squad horse no longer being ridden by chosen athlete/horse combination
- Horse injury
- It is the athlete's responsibility to inform the Squad Coordinator in writing in a timely fashion when listed horses are sold, retired, or change riders.
- Eventing SA will review athlete inclusion following instances of significant rule violation and/or following sanctions.
- Athletes must conform to:
The EA Code of Conduct https://www.equestrian.org.au/sites/default/files/Equestrian_Australia_Code_of_Conduct.pdf
The EA social media policy https://www.equestrian.org.au/sites/default/files/Social%20Media%20Policy.pdf
The FEI Code of Conduct for the Welfare of the Horse https://inside.fei.org/sites/default/files/Code_of_Conduct_Welfare_Horse_1Jan2013.pdf
- Squad riders are expected to show respect to other riders, organisers, and coaches.
- If an athlete meets the qualifying criteria throughout the year, they can apply to attend squad clinics but will not formally be named on the squad list until the following review period.
- Squad memberships are subject to a review period at the end of each June and December.