Laura
Underhill
Norment grew up in
New Bern
,
NC
and has been involved with horses for over 25 years since her first
riding lesson at the age of eight. She
showed locally both in the ponies and children’s hunters before
attending boarding school in Virginia and college at UNC Chapel Hill.
After college, she entered the intercollegiate riding world at
St Andrews
College
in Laurinburg,
NC
as a working student. She continued in the college riding world with
jobs teaching, riding, IHSA coaching, training, and barn managing at
Goucher College, in Baltimore MD and at the University of Virginia/The
Barracks in Charlottesville, VA. Laura
spent two years on the road at A rated horse shows in Illinois,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland as the manager of
the Saddlers Row’s mobile tack store.
She then returned to graduate school at
East
Carolina
University
where she earned a Masters in Business Administration in July 2003.
She returned to
St Andrews
in August 2003, where she served as a faculty member in
Equine Studies, instructor, and Show Team coach until June 2006, when
she decided to devote her full energies to Graham Place.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of the
NCHJA and is currently serving as co-chairman of the
Association's Annual AA Rated Horse Show
. Laura is a USEF 'r' judge
and actively judges shows from Ohio to Florida.
She has recently discovered the AQHA circuit as well and is doing some
shows there, including a very successful QH Congress in October 2006..
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Laura
Underhill Norment
910.373.1516
cell 252.633.5964
home office lhun@grahamplacefarm.com
Copyright 2006
Graham Place, LLC
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