Bruemmer, a native of El Paso, Texas and former coach with the NMSU equestrian club, is in her second year as head coach of NMSU’s varsity equestrian program.
In the Aggie Equestrian team’s first year as a varsity sport, Bruemmer led both the Western and Hunt Seat teams to national competitions at the 2005 Varsity Equestrian National Championships in Santa Fe, N.M. and the IHSA National competition in Ohio. The Aggies would also have 16 riders qualify for Regional competition. While at Texas A&M, at the first ever Varsity Equestrian National Championships, she coached the Hunt Seat Team to a second place finish which forced the Texas A&M Aggies into the Overall Champions title.
Individually, Bruemmer helped sophomore Krystal Mack finish the regular season as the High Point Rider in the Regional, earning the USEF/ Cacchione Rider Cup, which was the highest honor of any NMSU Hunt Seat rider. Mack participated at both the IHSA National competition in Ohio and at the Varsity Equestrian National Championships in Santa Fe, N.M. With the leadership of Bruemmer, Mack earned a second place finish at the Varsity Equestrian National Championships in the Hunt Seat Equitation Over Fences. Bruemmer also coached Claire Manatt to being the Regional Reserve Champion and Zone Champion in Intermediate Equitation Over Fences and Nicole Peck to Zone Champion in the Walk Trot Hunt Seat Equitation.
Another rider led by Bruemmer during the inaugural season for the Aggies was junior Kelli Younker. Younker finished seventh at the National Reigning Horse Association Derby-Collegiate Class in Oklahoma City, Okla., while finishing fifth in the prestigious AQHA High Point Western Rider Cup competition at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association National Championships. Bryn Wells was also a notable rider that year, finishing first at the Varsity Equestrian National Championships in Horsemanship.
Bruemmer, a 1988 graduate of El Paso Coronado High School, was an assistant coach for equestrian at Texas A&M from 2002-2004. She was promoted to associate head coach after leading the Aggies’ English team to a sixth place finish at the 2004 Intercollegiate Horse Show Association National Championships, the school’s highest ever finish at that time.
Bruemmer graduated from Texas A&M in 1992 with her bachelor’s degree in Journalism and was a member of the school’s first equestrian club team when it was adopted as a club sport by the Horseman’s Association in 1989. She rode on the team in the Open Flat and Fences division earning her way to the IHSA Nationals each year and receiving a top 6 finish her junior year and a top 3 finish her senior year.
Bruemmer then came to NMSU, earned her master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction in the spring of 2000 and began her collegiate coaching career for the Hunt Seat team from 1999-2001. In January of 2002, she returned to Texas A&M to serve as assistant coach with the varsity equestrian. She is now back at
NMSU, after a short stint coaching at Texas A&M, to serve as Head Coach of the NMSU equestrian program.
Bruemmer has spent some extensive time showing horses throughout the Southwest. She has competed in multiple USEF A-rated circuit shows in Colorado, Arizona, California and New Mexico. In the past she has ridden with and attended clinics with George Morris, Joe Fargis, Karen Healy, Linda Allen and Bernie Traurig.
Currently with her coaching staff, Bruemmer is working on hosting the Varsity Equestrian National Championships for the second year in a row.
