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Sandy White received the following letter from Julia Frazee, proud mom of Ethan Allen youth member Erica Frazee:

 

 

Hi Everyone,
I wanted to let all of you know that Erica WON the Innovation Connector/BSU Idea Blast competition tonight!  She won $1000 and help with producing her Horse Knowledge CD, manual, and student booklets!  She was very excited and overwhelmed!  I think she was up all night last night working on details of her slide show presentation and then had an 8:00 class this morning!  Eric and I did not get to see her presentation today but heard wonderful things about how she presented her product and herself!  Thanks to everyone for voting on round 2 of the contest to get her into the final round!  It means a lot to us that you took the time to vote and tell your friends :)  Eric did get to go to the awards dinner with Erica.  I did not because additional dinner tickets were $25 :(  He said it was very nice (great food) and was held in the Alumni Center at Ball State.  I think years of preparing speech presentations for the Youth of the Year contests (local, regional and national levels) in our "morgan horse world" helped prepare her for what she did today!  Again, thanks to all! :)
 --
Julia Frazee

Here is the link to the newspaper article that was in the paper a few days ago telling about the contest Erica won. 
Idea Blast Winners Named, article from Muncie Star/Press.

 

Congratulations, Erica! We're all very proud of you!

 

 


 

Ethan Allen Youth held it’s annual election of officers on Saturday, December 14, 2008.  The meeting was conducted at the home of Julia Frazee in Muncie, Indiana from 1:00-3:00.  Elected officers are: President – Katie Frazee, Vice-President - Gabby Fluhler, Secretary - Anna Luke.  Elected Co-leaders voted upon by the Indiana Morgan Horse Club membership are: Erica and Julia Frazee.

 

 

Those in attendance were Anna Luke, Katie Frazee, Erica Frazee, Gabby Fluhler, and Amber Taylor.  Absentee ballots were emailed and returned by those who could not attend due to schedule conflicts.

 

The girls played a Christmas game of putting Rudolph’s face back together on the patio door with gel-like parts, made a reindeer craft with clothes pins, and watched the movie ELF.  I want to say that Anna Luke did the best job on the game and won the prize of a stuffed reindeer (of course!).  Snacks consisted of M&M’s, cookies, and kool-aid.

 

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Our next meeting took place on Saturday, January 17, 2009 from 1:00-3:00 in Muncie after being rescheduled from Jan. 10th because of bad weather.  Those in attendance were Erica Frazee, Katie Frazee, Amber Taylor, and Anna Luke.  Attendance was low due to conflicting schedules.  The girls took time during this meeting to work on their individual horsemastership levels through the American Morgan Horse Assoc.  They also played a game of naming parts of the horse.  Discussion was made on what to do for a community service project.  A couple ideas were thrown around and will be investigated before the next meeting.  Snacks were provided by Amber Taylor, who just celebrated her birthday and brought us her birthday cake! Yummy!  And, of course, we had M&M’s as always!

 


 

Calendar of Events (tentative):

Feb. 14th    1:00 – 3:00              Meeting (Muncie)

Mar. 21st    1:00 – 3:00             Meeting (Muncie)

April 4th    8:00am – 11:30pm   Hoosier Horse Fair (Indianapolis)

 


EAY EXTRA - FRAZEE GIRLS COMPETE!!!

at the 2008 Morgan Grand National Youth of the Year Finals in Oklahoma City!

Katie and Erica Frazee posing for a picture with Dave and Karen Holford of Tulsa, OK during the Youth of the Year Finals in Oklahoma City at the 2008 Morgan Grand Nationals.  Katie is riding Coal Creek Timmy and Erica is riding I Love Lucy.  This is the third year the Holfords have provided a horse to a Frazee girl for the horsemastership portion of the competition.  And, this is the first time  both Frazee girls qualified in the same year!  A huge thank you to the Holfords for providing two horses this year!  They are the owners of Riverview Morgans and are Timmy and Lucy’s trainers.  Katie qualified to compete in Oklahoma by winning the youth contest at the Buckeye Morgan Challenge.  Erica qualified by winning the Gold Cup Regional Morgan Horse youth contest.  This year the youth contestants were surprised by a cash award for their efforts to compete by Corcel, Inc. in the amount of $700 each.  Corcel gave a total of $10,000  to the 2008 competition and vows to add to that amount each year!  Thank you Corcel!!!!

This was Katie’s second attempt at the Youth Finals.  She was awarded 7th place overall!  Six places are awarded during the youth presentation in the coliseum and Katie just missed out on hearing her name over the speakers!  The Youth Contest consists of 4 parts:  oral presentation/interview, horsemastership pattern, 250-question test, and judging contest over a two day period.  In the judging contest, Katie placed 10th individual and her team placed 5th place overall.  Congratulations to Katie!

 

This was Erica’s second attempt at the Youth Finals in OKC .   Erica and her judging team did an awesome job in the competition this year by taking 1st place rankings in the Team In-Hand and Reasons divisions and placing 3rd in the Team Performance division thus by pulling off an overall team 1st place National Championship title!   Erica also placed 6th in the overall individual division. Congratulations to Erica! (Erica, age 18, and I Love Lucy, right)

 

 


Erica Frazee, daughter of Eric & Julia Frazee, began her freshman year of college at Ball State University in August.  She's already caught the attention of the local press. The following article was printed in the DN/Online,  The Ball State Daily News Online.

Double duty

Many little girls dream of getting a pony; that dream came true for one freshman nursing major and evolved into her lifetime passion for horses and worldwide connections

by Sarah Cox   Originally published: 11/4/08 at 12:28 AM EST 
 

Erica Frazee received her first horse when she was about one year old and then another at age two."If the nursing doesn't take over my schedule, I hope to do it the rest of my college career," she said. "It's really fun."  Frazee's commitments vary from attending Bible study to equestrian team meetings to a 17 credit-hour workload. She also teaches people ranging from elementary school kids to adults how to ride horses.  "I do a lot of different things," Frazee said. "The stress from being involved in so much comes in spells. It's usually not too bad." 

Frazee is involved in horse competitions and has worked extensively with the Morgan breed. One competition she has devoted a lot of her time to is the American Morgan Horse Association Youth of the Year Finals Contest in Oklahoma City.  Amanda Ryan, membership services representative of AMHA, said that 15 to 25 people usually participate in the Youth of the Year Finals Contest.  This year the contest was Oct. 9, 10 and 11, and 24 people from all over the world attended.  "People come all the way from Canada and England to show their horses," Ryan said. "It's the biggest competition of the year for Morgan horses."  After winning a regional contest, Frazee qualified to perform in the AMHA and was given a $700 award on behalf of the contest's 30th anniversary. All participants received this award to generate interest in the competition. The winner chooses anywhere in the world to go for a month to be an AMHA ambassador to educate people about the breed.  "Tremendous amount of studying is required for those that compete in the finals contest in Oklahoma," Ryan said. "Once they get to nationals, there is a four-phase contest, which includes a 250 question written exam, an oral presentation, an interview and the horse judging competition." 

Frazee's father, Eric Frazee, has accompanied her on four trips to Oklahoma City for the AMHA competition.  "She's been involved with horses as long as she remembers," Eric Frazee said.Erica Frazee's interests have developed into a deeper passion, her dad said. She is also helping older adults with their riding, he said."She's 18 but has about 16 years of experience," Eric Frazee said. "It's kind of interesting that someone younger can help older people."

Helping other people is interspersed with Erica's heavy workload as a nursing major; both her academic and equestrian schedules require a lot of time and dedication. "At the beginning, schoolwork and horse training was hard to balance," Erica Frazee said. "For competition we had to learn the anatomy of a horse and the knowledge of that has transferred over to anatomy class."   Eric Frazee said that his daughter has a strong work ethic and is selfless, which is evident in her newfound joy in helping children with horses.  "She is really genuine and goal-oriented," Eric Frazee said. "She spends her day at school and spends the rest of the time giving lessons and going to Bible study. She decided to go into nursing but is still a very dedicated kid who will put her heart into everything she's involved in."


Indiana will be well represented in the Youth of the Year contest at the Morgan Grand Nationals.  Congratulations to both Katie & Erica Frazee for winning the regional competitions.  The EAY girls did fabulous at the Buckeye show:  Senior Div:  1st-Katie, 2nd-Anna Luke, 3rd-Erika Litz. Walk-Trot Div: 4th-Gabby Fluhler.  Katie won 1sts across the board on the test, speech, and pattern.  You go girls!


 

Want Info? Contact:   Erica Frazee (765) 358-4166