Lauren Nicholson
About Me
Born and raised in Mount Carmel, Ill., Lauren Nicholson, grew up in a non-horsey household, but that didn’t stop her passion for horses from developing. Her parents, recognizing the beginning of a lifelong obsession, gave her riding lessons for her sixth birthday.
Once Lauren discovered eventing, she never looked back. After graduating high school, she moved east to start riding with Olympian riders David and Karen O’Connor, who quickly became her mentors.
Today, Lauren Nicholson is one of the US’s leading event riders. As a young adult, she competed in the 2005 North American Junior Championships and the 2006 and 2007 North American Young Rider Championships. In 2014, as the leading USA rider in the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event CCI, she won the Pinnacle Cup Trophy; she won the same trophy again in 2016. In 2015, she competed in the Pan American Games, earning a gold medal along with her team and taking 7th place as an individual. In 2016, she traveled to Rio to compete in the Olympics, where her team placed 12th. Some of Lauren’s most notable mounts include Snooze Alarm, Veronica, Vermiculus and Meadowbrook’s Scarlett.
