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Training with Thea is Sam Halverson, a recent graduate of Laramie County Community College (LCCC), whose specialty is barrell horses. They are a great team no matter what the goal is! Sam lived in South Dakota until she was 10. Her family then moved to Douglas, Wyoming. Sam's parents are Bob and Teresa Halverson of Douglas. She has a 15-year-old brother, Tyler, and a 13-year-old sister, Cady.
Sam graduated
from Douglas High School in 2003 and went on to LCCC for Equine
Training. While at LCCC she was a a member of the school's Intercollegiate
Equestrian Team. She showed very successfully in Sock Seat (Western)
and Hunt Seat. After school she returned to Douglas to ride with
Thea. Now based in Mitchell, Nebraska, what would the two do without
each other? |
I
grew up in Douglas, Wyoming on a cattle ranch. I went from a two
room country school to Fountain Valley School, a private boarding
prep school, and then to Colorado State University where I acquired
degrees in Equine Sciences and Equine Reproduction. I continued
on with my passion for the equine industry through horse training
and breeding in Wyoming. Training and riding over 15 horses a day
became consuming and I asked Sam Halverson to join me from LCCC.
We were breeding Thoroughbreds, Quarter Horses, and Morgans. Deciding
it was not in our scope, we retired from the Morgan industry and
our best stock now resides at Justawee Morgans in Virginia. 
Currently I am active in the local 4-H groups, am Zone Representative
for the Polocrosse Association, am CEO of a nonprofit
for Horses and Children, and owner and president of CC Thoroughbred
Farm and Training, LLC. My horse activities are very broad including
polocrosse, reining, cutting, reined cow horse, western pleasure,
barrels, racing, jumping, and roping. 
Growing
up, Sam always had access to horses. At 11 she started showing her
black mare, Dawndy in 4-H. She got her first colt to train and resell
whe she was 12. Throughout high school Sam bought, started, finished,
and sold several more colts. When she was 15 her dad bought her
a three-year-old green broke mare at a sale. Sam finished the mare,
Bow, and showed her in 4-H in Showmanship, Horsemanship, Trail,
Western Riding, Reining, Working Cow Horse, English Equitation,
Hunter Hack, Barrels, Poles, etc. She won the Converse County Fair
Sr. High Point Performance Horse Award with Bow, her last three
years in 4-H. She also trained several horses that her brother and
sister are still competing on. 
