Name: Angela Peavy

Sport: Equestrian

Discipline(s): Dressage Equestrian

Event(s): Individual, Team (with Lancelot Warrior)

Classification: lll

Height: 5-5

Weight: 140

DOB: 8/12/1996

Birthplace: Hartford, Conn.

Hometown: Avon, Conn.

High School: The Ethel Walker School (Simsbury, Conn.) ‘15

Paralympic Experience

• One-time Paralympian (2016)
• 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, 8th (individual championship), 6th (team test), 12th (team championship)

Other Career Highlights

• Team Gold medalist in the Wellington CPEDI3* during week two of the 2016 Global Dressage Festival with Lancelot Warrior; Grade III Individual Champion
• Team Gold medalist and Grade III Individual Champion at the Wellington CPEDI3* during the first week of the 2016 Global Dressage Festival with Lancelot Warrior
• 2015 USEF Para-Equestrian Dressage Reserve National Champion in the High Performance division with Ozzy Cooper

Personal: Prior to birth, Peavy suffered a stroke, leaving her paralyzed on the left side of her body. When she was four, she began riding horses as a method of physical therapy. When she was 10, she got her first horse and developed a love for dressage. Peavy and her mother went on “dressage vacations” to Portugal where she took three lessons a day. After she returned home, her friend introduced her to para-equestrian dressage. From there, she started working toward her goal of representing the U.S. across the world....As a high school sophomore, Grade III athlete Peavy won the 2012 Youth Dressage Festival Championship…Peavy is one of the few para-equestrian athletes who also competes in able-bodied dressage…As a result, after returning from the WEG, the pair won Reserve Champion honors in the FEI Junior Team championship at the Great American/USDF Region 8 Championships.

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