Drill team offers 4-H'ers a chance to develop leadership and teamwork skills and learn more about horses. It's a positive environment in which to gain mentoring skills.
In drill team you'll learn coordination, timing, speed and synchronizing with other riders. Variety and creativity in dress and routine are encouraged.
2025 update
No regional qualifying competitions will be offered in 2025.
Minnesota 4-H State Drill Competition
Youth in grades 6 and up only are welcome to show at Minnesota 4-H State Drill Competition on Sept. 14 at the Stearns County Fairgrounds in Sauk Centre.
Schedule
- Thursday, Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. - Drill team coaches meeting via Zoom
- Sunday, Sept. 14 at 9 a.m. - Drill team classes begin
For participants
Note: In 2025, there are no regional qualifying competitions. Youth in grades 6 and up only will be able to show at the Minnesota 4-H State Drill Competition on Sept. 14 at the Stearns County Fairgrounds in Sauk Centre.
Youth in grades 3 and up can compete at a regional qualifier, and grades 6 and up can compete at the Minnesota 4-H State Horse Show, but youth have to be enrolled in Minnesota 4-H to participate. Join now!
- Guide on how to build a drill team.
- Drill team procedures book.
- Drill team rules in the Minnesota 4-H Horse Program rulebook.
- A horse and rider combination for drill team can be substituted up to the day of competition due to illness or injury as long as the horse was ID’d prior to the May 15 deadline. The process for the substitution will be as follows:
- The 4-H’er would need to contact their coach immediately to discuss the reason for the substitution of horses.
- The coach needs to contact Amy DeGroot at [email protected] to let her know about the substitution.
- No rider substitution is allowed-no exceptions.
- Please keep your area clean. Pick up your trash and take it with you (horse manure, garbage, papers, food, etc.).
- All spectators and participants are encouraged to cheer on every team! Unsportsmanlike conduct will not be tolerated. Remember all kids worked hard to get here.
Results
Contact
Renee Kostick, Extension educator, at [email protected]