Terese Bouchard
Head Coach
Office: (585) 872-9924
E-mail: tboucha3@naz.edu

Owner and operator of one of the premier show stables in the Rochester area, Terese Bouchard brings a lifetime of equine knowledge and experience to Nazareth's equrestrian team.

At Huntington Meadow Stables, Bouchard's base of operations since 1979, she has built a reputation for training riders who are competitive at every level of showing. Whether working toward professional equine careers or as accomplished riders, Bouchard's students have made a name for themselves wherever they go. Now, Bouchard is bringing her experience to the Nazareth Equestrian Team, which became an official varsity sport in 2002.

Bouchard's own riding credentials are impeccable. She began riding as a child, under Way Farm in Rochester. She competed in dressage and cross-country before turning her attention to hunt seat competition, working for Roger Young Stables as head instructor. She has attended clinics by many top equestrians, including Katie Monahan, Ian Miller, Victor Hugo-Vidal, and Olympic legend George Morris, who has been particularly influential in her career.

Bouchard's stable at Huntington Meadow has trained many of the finest riders and horses in the upstate New York area and beyond, including Lynda Powell, who now runs Keilyn Show Stable in Odessa, Fla.; Buzz Van Horn, a professional rider and trainer in Texas; and Rich Baskow, a member of the Monroe County Sheriff's Mounted Patrol Unit. Valerie Hoban and Kim Ernisse, who both started as lesson students, are still with Huntington Meadow Stables as professional trainers and riders, taking students and horses to USA Equestrian-sanctioned shows across the country. A horse she started as a three-year-old, "Navajo," is now being successfully shown in Florida by owner Kellie Klein, wife of fashion designer Calvin. As head instructor, she works with students of all riding levels, as well as those with learning and/or physical disabilities. She has also served as riding instructor for Rochester Institute of Technology's P.E. riding program since 1981.

In its first full year of competition, Nazareth's fledging Equestrian Team under Bouchard gave notice that they will be a team to watch in the next few years. Team member Jacquelyn Spector, now a senior, participated in post-season competition, earning the Reserve Championship at IHSA Regionals and placing a respectable fourth in her division at IHSA zone competitions against such equine powerhouse programs as Cazenovia College, Morrisville, and The United State Military Academy at West Point.

Bouchard is a member of the New York State Horse Council, the Riding Instructors Association, the American Horse Show Association, and the Professional Horseman's Association. She resides at Huntington Meadow Stables with her husband, Dick, and their two rottweilers, Muggsy and Alia.