Emily started riding horses as a child, showing at the age of 15 as a young rider on her trainer's lesson horses. She was able to compete 1st through 2nd level at Lendon Grey's Dressage For Kids.
At this point she began working with her own young Saddlebred who was able to overcome major injuries to compete through 4th Level schooling PSG and jumping up to 3' fences. She also trained many ponies, placing reserve champion at the East Coast Pony Cup in 2007, and other non dressage breeds believing that a basis in dressage is fundamental to all disciplines.
She also spent time in Germany where she was able to hone her skills and gain more experience breaking young horses and handling difficult horses, which has become a bit of a specialty. Her current young horse will be 6 this spring, won many highpoint awards at Training and First Level as a 5 year old scoring consistently in the 70's. The pair also placed 8th Training Level and 6th First Level at the 2008 RMDS championships in the open division, and this year have been successfully competing at 3rd level qualifying for the RMDS and USDF Regional Championships.
Through most of her riding career Katja Eilers has been her primary trainer and mentor. She also worked under Kate and Chris Theallet, and spent a season with Tina Konyot in Florida. She has cliniced with Patrick le Rolland,Hank Van Bergan and upon moving to Colorado, Sue Halaz. Also since her move she has been working closely with Jenny Baldwin at Autumn Hill Farm.