STANWOOD — Riding a horse with stirrups and a saddle is hard enough, but imagine standing upright on a horse’s back, perhaps on one foot. Or balancing on someone’s shoulders. Or even being turned ...

Editor’s note: This is the first installment of Marlee on the Move, a new series airing in the 4 p.m. hour in which News 8 sports reporter Marlee Wierda tries out various sports. You can send ideas ...

The sport is called vaulting, and a major competition will be held at the World Equestrian Festival this weekend in Aachen, Germany. By Hannah Wulkan Dancing requires memorizing intricate choreography ...

OH, TO BE young, agile and with a lithe body able to take a running leap onto the back of a moving horse to perform acrobatic moves! As I’m none of the above, all I could do was dream about the ...

The term horse vaulting is a bit misleading. It brings to mind the aerial leaps performed in gymnastic competitions on a padded stationary block. But the actual sport of horse vaulting is one of the ...

When the young members of the Flying Star Vaulting Team tell their friends they do gymnastics on horseback, the response is … skeptical. “They’re like, you’re lying,” said Haley Haberger, 11. “When ...

A Greeley high school student was a member of a junior equestrian vaulting team that won a silver medal at the world championships earlier this month in LeMans, France. Rhianon Hampton, who will be a ...