There’s no doubt that David has been preparing for this application process for his entire eventing career. He is an excellent communicator and he completely knows his plan for US eventing. I think David hit a home run today with the exception that he didn’t have to answer any terribly tough questions. As you will see from the videos, Leslie has a different communication style but it is important to distinguish presentation from the quality of his ideas, which are very strong.
The audio in the videos is less than ideal when people are not speaking into the microphone and there were numerous interruptions from the bad phone connection, but the videos are just as the forum was experienced in person.
Here is part 1 of David’s presentation (video is set to start after Sara Ike called roll):
David part 2:
This is part 1 of Leslie’s presentation:
Here is part 1 of the Search Committee discussion started by Boyd:
That’s all the video I have time to upload this evening. Each 15 minute video takes around 50 minutes to upload. We will try to have the other parts uploaded sometime soon. Many thanks to course designer Hugh Lochore for letting me use his house’s high speed internet.
Friday morning update: Josh Walker has published a full report on the open forum for the USEA
Go eventing.
