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Adrienne Rubin-Director 
Adrienne began riding at the age of six, with the neighborhood kids, on her neighbor's old Morgan. She then attended Paint Horses Stables for two summers, and learned how to groom, tack up, and care for horses along with some basic horsemanship. She joined the Bit of Class 4-H Club at age 12, and began leasing a horse of her own, training with Rachel Henley, a John Lyons-certified trainer, also a former trainer for High Prairie Farms, in Parker, Colorado. After a year or so of riding and training her horse, she began riding and training other horses for the barn owner, and helping to teach and train the younger 4-H members and their horses. After shadowing horse trainer Kim Hayes for a school project in 7th grade, Adrienne got a job helping Kim teach summer horse camp at SaddleUp! Inc. in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, owned by Shery McDonald, where she later began assisting to teach lessons and then teaching. She left SaddleUp! at age 15 and started teaching on her own. She mainly taught the 4-H kids on their own horses, and some lessons on one of her leased horses. Meanwhile, she continued training Western and English Pleasure with Kenny Scott, of Scott Performance Horses in Elizabeth, Colorado. She expanded to English and jumping soon after, training with Carol Jones, a trainer from Windy Ridge Throughbreds, in Kiowa and Lindsay Wilner of American Sport Horses, in Littleton. She later rode at Columbine Equestrian Center, taking hunter-jumper lessons, and then at age 18, started playing polo at Cottonwood Riding Club. She began Highline Horses in 2006, to promote and expand her lesson and training business, and now teaches summer camps, runs clinics, seminars, and horse shows, as well as an Equine Science Program for high school students. She currently rides with the University of Denver Equestrian Team; which was coached by Molly Rinedollar at Helicon Show Stables for the 2008-2009 school year, and is currently coached by Alexia Nestora and Mary Sayre, at 5280 Equestrian Center in Louviers. Adrienne still shows in local open and schooling shows and in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association.
Lyndsey McCormick
-Instructor and Trainer
Lyndsey started riding as soon as she could walk, riding on her dad's lap on their Appaloosa mare, Lucy. She started taking lessons from her aunt on her Morgan horses at the age of 10 or so. She joined 4-H at age 12, and started competing at local and 4-H shows, including the Arapahoe County Fair. She started assisting with lessons at SaddleUp! Inc. in 2003 and remained there until 2005. She attended the CSU Horsemanship camp in both 2003 and 2004, and after high school, attended CSU to study Equine Science. She now works as a freelance instructor and trainer, while continueing to show her Morgans at breed shows and other nationally ranked shows including the National Western Stock Show.
Celeste Komodore-Intern Instructor
Celeste joined Whinnians Youth Riders at Coal Creek Stables when she was ten years old, taught by Rathel Gincig, a CHA certified instructor. After completing the one-year English program, she continued to train with a concentration in hunter-jumper, cross country, and dressage riding. Shortly after, Celeste began to lease and train her own horse. At the age of thirteen, she completed a riding instructor’s program, taught by Rathel, and started teaching at Whinnians to some of the kids that had severe ADD, ADHD, and Dyslexia, and other learning disabilities. Celeste started to train the new horses that came into the program to be suitable schooling and jumping horses. She joined the Bit Of Class 4-H Club when she was sixteen years old, and started doing rodeo events with Kevin and Michelle Martin of Coal Creek Stables in November 2008.