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Tryon, Amy
- 2004 U.S. Olympic team member
- 2002 Eventing World Championships gold medal team member
- 1999 Pan American Games team member (finished fourth)
- Competition Horses: My Beau (1989, Thoroughbred Gelding; owned by Leigh Mesher, Bob and Barbara Mesher) and alternate Poggio II (1992, Thoroughbred Gelding; owned by Amy Tryon and Mark Hart)
- My Beau really enjoys bucking: "He's bucked off nearly everyone in the barn, including my husband."
- Discovered Poggio II (nicknamed "Pogi") seven years ago through a classified ad in the Seattle Times; Pogi was an ex-racehorse who also worked as a mountain pack horse
- Tryon and Kim Severson are the only two riders with two horses on the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team
- Tryon and Poggio II helped the U.S. win the team gold medal at the Eventing World Championships at the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Jerez, Spain
- Suffered serious back injury from fall at 2002 World Equestrian Games and had risky back surgery that prevented her from working or training for five months
- Rode Poggio II to a fourth-place individual finish in the 1999 Pan Am Games but a hind-leg fracture kept him out of the competition for the 2000 Olympics
- Often works 24-hour shifts as a paramedic and full-time firefighter in Redmond, Wash., but finds time for horses by “working holidays for everyone else” in shift trades
- At age eight, started riding equestrian in local 4-H competitions
"With horses you're dealing with an unknown, dealing with another athlete and an animal and you're not just relying on yourself to get that perfect 10, you're also relying on your horse," said Amy Tryon. "And you can have an off-day; the horse can have an off-day." -- NBCOlympics.com
Her accomplishments are many. In 2004, she won to Advanced divisions at the CIC*** Chatsworth event in Georgia on her two mounts, Poggio and My Beau. She has consistently placed among the top six in events across the U.S. Her solid performance in the three-star in Punchestown, Ireland, in May 1999 earned Tryon a trip to the Pan American Games where she finished fourth individually, just two penalties away from the Bronze medal. Amy and her husband, Greg, also a firefighter, reside in Redmond, Washington.
On her competition horses: "My horses are as different as chalk and cheese. Beau is like a big Labrador; laid back, he takes everything in stride. He goes as well as he's ridden; a very generous horse. He never holds a grudge when I make mistakes. You can't say that about every horse. Poggio is a better jumper, but his dressage is not as good. He's one of those horses who would go 100 mph all the time. Where Beau would be on a La-Z-boy boy watching TV, Poggio would be outside taking the car engine out of his car and putting it back together again." -- Seattle Times
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Born: 24-Feb-70
Resides: Redmond, Washington
Sport: Equestrian
Event: Eventing
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