The U.S. Equestrian Federation has announced that Roxanne Trunnell (Rowlett, Texas) has been added to the U.S. Paralympic Equestrian squad for the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 7-18.
Trunnell will be entered as an individual in the Grade Ia division with Royal Dancer, Julia Handt’s 11-year-old Westphalian gelding. As a result of a Danish athlete withdrawing from the Paralympics, the Fédération Equestre Internationale allocated the United States an individual slot as a result of having the next highest-ranked athlete on the FEI Paralympic Ranking List.
Trunnell joins the following combinations that will compete in the team competition in addition to competing as individuals:
Sydney Collier (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Grade Ib, and Wesley Dunham’s Western Rose, a 13-year-old Oldenburg mare
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Rebecca Hart (Wellington, Fla.), Grade II, and her own Schroeters Romani, a 14-year-old Danish Warmblood mare
Margaret McIntosh (Reading, Pa.), Grade Ia, and her own Rio Rio, a 10-year-old Rheinland Pfalz-Saar mare
Angela Peavy (Avon, Conn. and Wellington, Fla.), Grade III, and Heather Blitz and Rebecca Reno’s Lancelot Warrior, a 14-year-old Hanoverian gelding
