THE Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) Coaching Awards ceremony was held on Monday at the Keadeen Hotel, Newbridge, Co Kildare, where all levels of coaching certificates were presented along with the prestigious 2015 Coach of the Year awarded.

The HSI Coaching Programme provides competition based coaching qualifications for coaches wishing to work with riders from grass roots to the highest levels of competition in dressage, show jumping and eventing. It is currently run across four levels from the one day Introduction to Coaching course to the nine-day discipline specific Level 3 National coach course.