Entries by Till Buurman

Bronze for the team featuring Jana Vollhardt at the German Championships in the quadrathlon

After Hesse secured victory in last year’s national quadrathlon, this year’s German Quadrathlon Championships (swimming, running, dressage, and show jumping) took place last weekend in Northern Hesse (Fürstenwald). A total of 12 teams from 10 federal states competed. Jana Vollhardt, a 10th-grade student in class 10a at Steinmühle, had qualified for the national competition in […]

2018 State Quadrathlon in Erbach in the Odenwald

Jana Vollhardt and her team from the Marburg-Biedenkopf District Equestrian Association won the Hesse Championship in the four-event competition on March 10–11, 2018. Thanks in no small part to the excellent preparation of both horse and rider—provided by Steinmühle trainer Beate Schridde, who also made her horse available for the competition—the 10th-grade student was able […]

Successful Conclusion of the Ring Tournament and Youth Cup Season

Last weekend in Wehrda, things couldn’t have gone better for our riders! On Saturday at the Youth Cup, the Steinmühle team confidently secured the day’s victory. And that wasn’t all; their lead over the other teams was enough to clinch the overall victory in the 2018 Youth Cup season and, with it, the district championship […]

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Wrestling Tournament and Youth Cup Tournament at the Steinmühle

Last weekend, the Steinmühle hosted the “ ” wrestling tournament and the Youth Cup as part of the ongoing tournament series. On Saturday, teams from Sterzhausen, Wehrda, and Mengsberg visited to showcase their skills. Our riders narrowly missed out on the day’s victory in the Youth Cup but once again secured second place on the […]

Our riders were successful in Mengsberg as well

Last Sunday, the female riders from RuS Steinmühle competed in Mengsberg in the second tournament of the “Jugendcup” series. Just like at the first tournament in Sterzhausen, our riders had to mount unfamiliar horses and ride a dressage test after only a 5-minute warm-up. And once again, there were beaming faces, as the team led […]

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The Steinmühle riders kick off the tournament season on the podium

On January 13, 2018, the RSV Sterzhausen hosted this year’s first Youth Cup tournament. This tournament series places particularly high demands on the young riders, all of whom must ride horses provided by the host club. The RuS Steinmühle e.V. team handled the task with flying colors and narrowly missed out on the gold medal. […]

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Halloween Party

On the evening before Reformation Day, we took advantage of the witching hour to throw a little Halloween party. Amid terrifying clowns and ghostly girls, there were ice-cold little hands in the punch and gelatin worms in the cake. Even the teaching staff had transformed into a sort of “Suicide Squad.” Fortunately, though, the team […]

Beaming faces under riding caps

– Successful riding course for earning badges during the fall break A different kind of fall break: Ten female students and one male student have decided to take a riding course at the Steinmühle Riding School to earn a certification. For about six hours a day, they were challenged with dressage and show jumping, as […]