Karen Stephens Career Highlights

Numerous Championship and High-Point awards in the 1960s & 1970s in Morgan Park and Pleasure Classes.

Past Queen of COSCA (Central Ohio Saddle Club Association) and OMHA (Ohio Morgan Horse Association)

Trained & competed her Morgan to High-Point Award for Hunter-Jumper at Regional Championships.

Trained & competed her Morgan to Grand National World Champion Dressage Horse - Training Level - Adult Amateur (1998).

Numerous year-end placings in USDF All-Breeds Award Dressage - Morgan - Training, First, Second Levels (1998 - present)

Bronze medallions from AMHA (American Morgan Horse Association) for success in Open Competition in Dressage.

Qualified Rider, Bronze Medal Rider, & 1 score short of Silver Medal Rider from USDF.

Very successful year her first year in Dressage at FEI levels as Adult Amateur (2001);

Dressage in the Rockies I High Score FEI AA

RMDS Championships Intermediaire I AA Champion & Prix St. Georges Reserve AA Champion
USDF Regional Championship AA Reserve Champion at Prix St. Georges and Intermediaire I
USDF All-Breeds Award Intermediaire I AA Champion Trakehner
Prix St. Georges demo rider at Alexa Von Schulten Baumer Clinc, by invitation (RMDS)
Rode Lirik, her Russian Warmblood, in exhibition in "An Evening of Dancing Horses" at the National Western Stock Show, Denver with Michael Martin Murphy and his band.

Trainer, coach, instructor at her facility KKM Stables at Mill Run Farm of Bellville, Ohio (opened August 2005).

In addition to the above, B.A. from Ohio State University with a major in clinical psychology. Graduate level coursework and practical experience in clinical psychology (biofeedback technician, test administration, technical report writing). Numerous years teaching various horse disciplines and certified flight instruction. Successful career in aviation from instructor through Charter, Corporate, night freight and 20 years at United Air Lines (Boeing 767 Captain). Other personal interests are hiking, health, nutrition and yoga.