Kate Shoemaker
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| National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 25, 1987 Eagle, Idaho, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Para-equestrian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kate Shoemaker (born August 25, 1987) is an American Paralympic equestrian. She represented the United States at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics.[1]
Career
[edit]Shoemaker made her World Equestrian Games debut in 2018 and won a bronze medal in the individual para-dressage freestyle grade IV event.[2][3] She again competed at the World Championships in 2022 where she won a silver medal in the individual para-dressage freestyle grade IV event, and a bronze medal in the team para-dressage event.[4][5]
Shoemaker represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won a bronze medal in the team event, alongside Rebecca Hart and Roxanne Trunnell.[6] She again represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Paralympics and won a bronze medal in the individual freestyle test grade IV event.[7]
Personal life
[edit]Shoemaker suffers from white matter lesions from periventricular ischemia causing motor control dysfunction, muscle weakness, and spasms on the right side of her body.[8]
She is also an equine veterinarian and runs her own practice, Velocity Equine Sports Medicine, in Wellington, Florida.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Kate Shoemaker". usef.org. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
- ^ "Tryon 2018: 10 questions with Kate Shoemaker". paralympic.org. September 13, 2018. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
- ^ Hepner, Annan (September 23, 2018). "U.S. Para-Dressage Team Makes History Ending FEI World Equestrian Games™ Tryon 2018 With Four Medals". psdressage.com. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
- ^ "Kate Shoemaker Secures Final Medal for Adequan® U.S. Para Dressage Team at Herning 2022". uset.org. August 14, 2022. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
- ^ Bowker, Paul D. (August 16, 2022). "U.S. Equestrians Pick Up Three Medals At The World Championships In Denmark". teamusa.org. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
- ^ "Idahoans claim medals at Paralympic Games". The Idaho Press. September 7, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
- ^ "NEWSFLASH - Kate Shoemaker and Vianne Secure Individual Bronze in Grade IV FEI Grand Prix Freestyle at Paris 2024". usef.org. September 7, 2024. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
- ^ "Kate Shoemaker". teamusa.org. Archived from the original on August 24, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
- ^ "Working Toward a Paralympic Dream". uset.org. April 7, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
External links
[edit]- Kate Shoemaker at Team USA (archived)
- Kate Shoemaker at the International Paralympic Committee
- 1987 births
- Living people
- American female equestrians
- American dressage riders
- Equestrians at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Equestrians at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic equestrians for the United States
- Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States
- Paralympic medalists in equestrian
- People from Eagle, Idaho
- 21st-century American sportswomen