Anna Weniger is a young rider competing internationally for the United States, and a member of the Discover Dressage USEF/USDF Emerging Athlete Program. She is a USDF Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medalist. She has been competing Don Derrick, an NRPS gelding owned and trained by her mother Dawn Weniger, since 2016, starting in FEI Juniors and moving up through Grand Prix. Anna and Derrick had a very successful 2018, beginning with many placings in the CDI Young Rider classes at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, Florida. Their success in Florida qualified them for the US Equestrian Young Rider European Tour over the summer. In Europe, they placed in the top 10 at the CDIO Compiegne in France and the CDI Aachen Dressage Days in Germany, with the highlight of the tour being a sixth-place finish in the CDIO-Y Freestyle at the Future Champions show in Hagen a.T.W., Germany. Anna and Derrick then returned home for the North American Youth Championships in North Salem, New York, where they won Team Bronze, placed fifth in the individual test, and won Freestyle Gold with a 74.225%. After a short break from competition, they made their Grand Prix debut at the end of September and are preparing to compete in U25 classes next year. Anna is based out of her family’s dressage training facility, Firstview Farm, LLC, in Apex, North Carolina. Away from the barn, she is an honors student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is earning a B.S. in Geology.