Welcome to the new National Youth Board website! The National Youth Board is a small group of twenty dedicated older members of the United States Pony Club, that function to increase communication between the organization’s government and its members. In addition, the board provides committees with a member’s insight into aspects of the organization under consideration, as well as bringing forth ideas and proposals regarding issues that the board feels need further attention. The National Youth Board was created in 2009 by delegates from the 2008 National Youth Council.
The representative areas of the NYB are identical with that of the Riding Centers Program in order to preserve uniformity within the organization and maintain a workable board size. Every year one of delegates from each of the ten Areas will be replaced, providing a rotating term of two years that maintains linearity of the NYB agenda. The areas contain regions as defined below:
Area 1:                   Alaska, Big Sky, Inland Empire, Northwest, Oregon
Area 2:                   Camino Real, Hawaii, Middle California, Sierra Pacific, Southern California
Area 3:                   Intermountain, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Area 4:                   Lakeshore, Midwest, Northern Lakes, North Central Prairie
Area 5:                   Cimarron, Deep South, Red River, Rio Grande
Area 6:                   Great Lakes, Heartland, Midsouth, Tri-State
Area 7:                   Carolina, South, Sunshine
Area 8:                   Capital, Delmarva, Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Old Dominion
Area 9:                   Metropolitan, New York Upper Connecticut, Western New England, Western New York
Area 10:                 Central New England, Northeast, Southeastern New England, White Mountain
The National Youth Board is currently accepting delegate applications for the 2011-2012 term. All interested USPC members over the age of 18 are encouraged to apply. Completed applications should be sent to the National Office at 4041 Ironworks Parkway, Lexington, KY, 40511. Applications must be received no later than October 15, 2010 and will be considered at the fall meeting of the Board of Governors. Please use the application form found here.
The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) is an interdisciplinary body governing many of the riding disciplines offered within the USPC. The National Youth Board is currently accepting applications to be Pony Club's representative to the USEF Youth Council. If you have an interest in representing Pony Club by serving on the USEF's interdisciplinary Youth Council, return the completed application found here to the National Office by September 10, 2010.

Last modified: June 21, 2010