Nationality United States Height 1.68 m | Name Jessica Springsteen Discipline Show jumping | |
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Full name Jessica Rae Springsteen Born December 30, 1991 (age 32) United States ( 1991-12-30 ) Parents Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa Aunts Pamela Springsteen, Virginia Springsteen Shave Siblings Evan James Springsteen, Sam Ryan Springsteen Similar People Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa, Julianne Phillips, Sam Ryan Springsteen, Evan James Springsteen | ||
Global talk jessica springsteen usa
Jessica Rae Springsteen (born December 30, 1991) is an American show jumping champion rider who has represented the United States in international competition.
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- Global talk jessica springsteen usa
- Interview jessica springsteen wins the csi5 gaston glock s vienna masters
- Background
- Career
- References
Interview jessica springsteen wins the csi5 gaston glock s vienna masters
Background
Jessica is the second child and only daughter of Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa. She has one older brother, Evan James Springsteen (born July 25, 1990) and one younger brother, Samuel Ryan Springsteen (born January 5, 1994). When Jessica and her brothers reached school-going age in the early 1990s, Springsteen and Scialfa moved from Los Angeles to New Jersey specifically to raise a family in a non-paparazzi environment. When Jessica was a child, the Springsteen family owned and lived on a horse farm in Colts Neck Township, New Jersey. They also owned homes in Wellington, Florida, an equestrian community near West Palm Beach, Florida, Los Angeles and Rumson, New Jersey.
She attended the Ranney School in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. She was awarded an undergraduate degree from Duke University on May 11, 2014.After embarking on her career as a show jumping rider, she also did some modeling and was named the equestrian ambassador for Gucci.
Career
Springsteen has been riding since she was four years old, with horses kept on the Springsteen family’s 300-acre Stone Hill Farm in Colts Neck, NJ.Jessica got her first pony when she was six years old. As a youth equitation rider, she first won classes in the pony division, including the Washington International Pony Equitation Classic Final, and as a teen won the 2008 ASPCA Maclay National Championship in a ride-off where her particularly bold riding stood out. She also won the 2009 George H. Morris Excellence in Equitation Championship.
As an adult competitor, in 2011 she competed in the Royal Windsor Horse Show competing on her horse Vordnado Van Den Hoendrik.In September 2012 Peter Charles, who had represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in theEquestrian events, sold his team gold medal winning horse, Vindicat W, to Springsteen. Springsteen herself was an alternate rider for the United States at the 2012 Summer Olympics.In 2014, she won the American Gold Cup. In 2016, she won her first five-star Grand Prix jumping competition with her horse Cynar VA, but did not make the short list for the U.S. Equestrian team for the 2016 Summer Olympics. In May 2017, she won the Falcon Stakes CSI 5* at the Royal Windsor Horse Show riding Davendy S.
She formerly trained with Frank and Stacia Klein Madden and then trained with Laura Kraut from 2010 to 2015. Since May 2015 she trains with Edwina Tops-Alexander.