A Short Biography
Katrin Dagge, was born on September 2nd, 1991 in Herdecke, Germany. She started Kindergarten in Germany and then moved to the United States. Kati is 16, and attending 11 th grade at Barron Collier High School, with dual enrollment at Edison College, in Naples, Florida. Entering into 11th grade with more then 3/4 of the required high school credits and a GPA of 4.2 she sets her standards very high, just as she does in Dressage.
Katrin inherited her love for horses. Horses have played a large part in (Kati’s mother) Birgitt’s family for generations. Katrin started riding dressage at the age of eleven. At that time she had set her mind on training an barely broke four year old jumper, which got her to see the ground more often then she liked. But in the end her horse "Lucky" made a strong contender at first level. She trained him all by herself. Her next horse was Farbough, also a green horse, he was bought in Germany and Katrin has trained him herself to third level in 2007.
Katrin's competition horse Ladinor has been in the family for eight years; he was bought as 5 year old jumper in Germany and did AA Grand Prix jumping with Birgitt. He also doubled up as baby sitter in walk-trot classes and cross rails for Katrin and her brother. Until Birgitt decided to stop jumping and only ride dressage. Birgitt retrained Ladinor to be a dressage horse, within his first year of competing he went from first to third level, in the second year he did fourth and Prix St. George.
Katrin has been showing Ladinor for about two years, starting in third level and working her way up to 4-3 and then in spring of 2008 to Prix St. George. Katrin has the USDF Bronze and Silver Medal. And is in persuit of he Bronze and Siver Freestyle Medals. Katrin has won several USDF yearend awards and finished in the USDF Regioal Championships in 2007
2nd at fourth level
2nd at the Junior FEI Test
and 2nd at Third Level Freestyle Open
Between Katrin and Birgitt, they finished the USEF Dressage horse owners ranking for 2007 in the 4th place in the United States with more then 7500 registered Dressagehorse owners competing in this list.
Katrin has won several year end awards, earned her bronze medal and has competed and won in Germany .
Katrin is responsible not only to keep her horse physically fit, but also is involved in all aspects of the horses care. Next to school and horses, Katrin enjoys being with her friends, swimming, the beach, and volunteers at the Naples Equestrian Challenge and a Thorobred Retraining Center.
She represented the United State's Region Three team in the summer of 2007. Ladinor and Katrin placed in the top 10 juniors out of the nation and in the top 20 juniors after competing against teams from Mexico, Argentina, and Canada. (To read more about this look at NAJYRC link)
In 2008 she ended third in the US to qualify for the National Championship and again attended the North American Junior Championships, were the team of Region 3 got a 4th place.
Dream of Love is Katrin's upcoming horse. She is training her horses every day, Dream of Love was one of the best five year olds in Germany two years ago. And is currently, with only two years under saddle, training third level, working hard so he will be her second horse for next years junior devison. Dream of Love has international quality, so the long term goals are the Junior, the Young Rider Championships and international competions. She is hoping to advance Ladinor to the Intermediare I level this year with a long time goal of riding him in Grand Prix. Her educational goal is to finish high school and to go to college.
Her trainer is Marelyn Heath, S judge and head of the USDF judges L program. As well as attending several cliniques a year with international trainers.
Feel free to contact me at any time regarding anything.
Katrin Dagge
My cell number: (239) 777-6822
My fax number: (239) 495-7969