WELCOME TO THE COLLECTIVE EQUESTRIAN ACADEMY
QUESTIONS? Call/ text Academy owner Elizabeth Crumbly: 770-656-7238.
We’re thrilled you’ve chosen The Collective Equestrian Academy. Please know that our intent is to foster a love of horses in a welcoming, supportive atmosphere. Your child will receive instruction for riding and horsekeeping as part of the structured curriculum we use called Learning Levels.
About us:
– Academy owner Liz Crumbly is a Berry College graduate and lifelong equestrian. She began riding at the age of eight and eventually became an open-level rider for the Berry College Equestrian Team, representing her school twice in national competition in both hunt seat equitation and Western horsemanship. She has shown horses extensively with the American Quarter Horse Association and United States Dressage Federation. She now makes it her commitment to provide your child with compassionate, experienced instructors and horses for a fun and educational horse experience.
– The Academy is housed on 50 acres of woods and pasture on John’s Creek in beautiful Everett Springs between Calhoun and Armuchee.
– Christmas Camp 2021: Camp is a great opportunity for your child to enhance their riding skills or take their first ride ever.
What do we do at camp? Your child will learn horsekeeping skills like grooming and hoof care, along with farm management skills like barn and arena care. There will be hiking on our 50 scenic, wooded acres, and of course, there will be a riding lesson every day for each camper on our trusted school horses, whom you can meet below.
Camp is an unforgettable experience your child will treasure for the rest of his or her life. A common request among or campers at the end of a session is that they be allowed to live here on the farm — we always tell them we have to give them back to their families, but they’re welcome to visit!
What’s included? Camp includes a snack, craft and riding lesson each day. When your child is not participating in these activities, he or she will be learning horsekeeping and farm management. We send our campers home with a great basis for learning to ride and care for horses.
What’s the cost/ date/ times? Christmas camp 2021 will be M-W, Dec. 27-29 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost is $250 per child. A $100 deposit reserves your slot.
If you have purchased a camp slot, please print release forms and gift certificates by navigating to the PDF files below:
CampPacket
TCEAGiftCertLessons
– Our lesson ponies:
Cheyenne is a retired show horse double registered with AQHA and APHA. Her registered name is “Rosies Two Step.” Her color is called bay overo, and she is 15.1 hands. During her show career, she competed in lunge line, trail, hunter under saddle and dressage. Chey has had several babies, and she now leads the herd here as boss mare in the pasture. She is great at teaching our advanced beginners to canter.
Ava is a registered Quarter Horse. She is buckskin in color, and she stands 14.3 hands at the shoulder. Her registered name is “Double Trouble Daisy,” and during her show career, she competed in all-around breed show events – showmanship, horsemanship, hunter equitation, hunter under saddle and Western pleasure. She excels at teaching our beginners how to jog and trot.
Flaire is a Jockey Club-registered Thoroughbred mare with the registered name “Legions Star.” Her color is called seal bay, and she stands 16.2 hands. She had 33 starts on the track and a hunter-jumper show career after that. She is a step-up horse for our intermediate riders, and she teaches beginning jumping.
London is a Jockey Club-registered Thoroughbred mare with the registered name “Waterfall Curls.” She is seal bay in color and is 16.3 hands tall. She went into race training as a two-year-old, but she never raced. She schools dressage and is learning to jump, and we use her for horsekeeping and occasional riding during lessons.
Maverick is a palomino gelding standing 16 hands. He has no papers that we know of, but his body type and chiseled face suggest strong halter Quarter Horse lines. In his previous life, he was a ladies’ trail mount. Now, he enjoys working in our lesson program teaching beginners to trot and intermediate riders to jump.