Stacia Klein Madden
Stacia Klein Madden stands out as one of the most successful and dedicated trainers of young, developing show jumping talent in the United States. She was a top junior rider from Indiana, winning the 1987 ASPCA Maclay Finals and placed in both the AHSA Medal Finals and the USET Finals Talent Search - East. After turning professional in 1988 she started training out of Beacon Hill Show Stables in North Salem, New York. In June of 1988, Beacon Hill relocated to Colts Neck, New Jersey. As a professional rider, she was highly successful in both the hunter and jumper ring showing top hunters Another Affair, Copper Creek, Dark Harbor, Hidden Treasure, Kawamaha, and Manifesto to championships at shows such as Winter Equestrian Festival, Devon Horse Show, Lake Placid Horse Shows, Hampton Classic, Pennsylvania National Horse Show, Washington International Horse Show, and The National Horse Show before shifting her concentration to the training aspect of the business. From Beacon Hill Show Stables in Colts Neck, New Jersey, she has trained several of the most promising junior riders - riders who have potential to represent the United States at the highest levels of International competition.
Krista Freundlich
Krista Freundlich has been the lead assistant trainer at Beacon Hill Show Stables since 2002. Prior to working for Beacon Hill, Krista had a successful junior career that included placing 3rd in the USEF Talent Search Finals in 2001, 4th in the USEF Talent Search Finals in 2002 and 6th in the 2002 North American Youth Championship. Working besides Stacia Klein Madden, she has coached students to many hunter and equitation championships at equitation finals and the Devon Horse Show.
Heather Senia Williams
Heather Senia Williams grew up Wesbury, New York and started riding at just four years old. She rode and worked for Jim and Sharon Rice at Rice Farms in Long Island, New York during her junior year where she also ran horse shows for them. During those years she learned about all aspects of the horse industry, from teaching lesson, grooming and barn managing to how to work the in-gate and office at shows. She qualified and competed at nationals, including USHJA Pony Finals and USEF Medal Finals. At 18 years old, she graduated from high school and moved to the farm in Colts Neck, NJ to work alongside Stacia and the rest is history. They have trained many champions together over the last 15 years.
Lydia Ulrich
Lydia Ulrich grew up in Rochester, New York and started riding when she was 8 years old at Huntington Meadows Stables in Webster, New York. In 2019 she placed 7th at Talent Search Finals with Onatello VDL, placed 5th at USEF Medal Finals and 8th at ASPCA Maclay Finals riding Clover, and was a member of the North American Young Rider team that competed in the Young Rider Nations Cup in Europe with her junior jumper horse Santos Utopia. As a junior she rode with John and Beezie Madden in the jumpers and trained with Stacia and the Beacon Hill team for equitation, keeping her horses with her mom, Beth Congel, at Up the Creek Farm in Rochester. Lydia worked for John and Beezie during her summers home from college, graduating from Colgate University in 2016. She worked for Up the Creek Farm after graduating before going back to work for John and Beezie, then started working for the Beacon Hill Show Stables team in 2019.
Katie Kanner
Katie grew up riding in Buffalo, New York at Skibbereen Farm with Chrissie & Molly Hannon. She competed at both USEF Hunter Seat Medal & ASPCA Maclay Finals as a junior, winning the Emerging Athletes Program (EAP) in 2010. She attended Centenary University and rode on the IHSA team, winning at IHSA Nationals for two of her four years competing. Katie started working with Beacon Hill Show Stables when she graduated college in 2014 and hasn’t looked back since! She even got married on Beacon Hill’s New Jersey property last June!
Abby Jorgensen
Abby Jorgensen grew up in Woodside, California and successfully competed as a junior, earning fourth place at the NorCal Medal Final and WCE Medal Final, qualified for all east coast major equitation finals, and earned first place at the CPHA Medal Final, which Stacia judged. Abby attended Baylor University and was a member of the NCEA team. She majored in Kinesiology with the original plan of becoming a physical therapist, but her plans shifted when a mutual friend of Stacia’s told Abby to give Stacia a call. Stacia asked Abby what her plans were after graduating and if she was interested in interviewing for a position at Beacon Hill the next week. The rest is history! After Abby graduated she went home for three days and headed straight for the east coast. She is grateful to be a part of such a driven team for the last three years.
Katie Bremen
Katie Bremen grew up in St. James New York and attended Lynchburg College in Virginia, now the University of Lynchburg. Katie rode with JT Tallon and participated in the school’s IHSA team and was the captain for one year. Katie was a working student throughout college summers for various professionals and after graduating college she went to work as a retail store manager/recruiter for Blinds To Go. After deciding it wasn’t what she wanted to do, she moved to Maryland in 2014 where she worked at the Potomac Horse Center as a riding instructor. In 2016, Katie became a partner at a small show barn that she helped open in Poolesville, Maryland. Katie began working for Beacon Hill in March 2020 after selling her half of the business, allowing her to focus on the managing side of the equestrian industry.