Life experiences can radically change how we perceive
ourselves and our lives; they can also enrich them. When teachers
share their experience and bring skills to others, this enrichment
becomes magnified. Lamar Community College Horse Training & Management
students receive the benefit of learning from industry leaders.
J.J. Rydberg - HTM Program Manager
Lamar
Community College's 2006 Faculty of the Year, J.J. Rydberg joined
the Lamar Community College faculty as a Horse Training & Management Instructor
in August of 2000. Prior to his employment at LCC, he spent
most of his professional life training horses and competing
in professional rodeo. After graduating with a bachelor’s
degree from Adams State College (Alamosa, CO) in Physical Education,
J.J. spent fifteen years in the professional rodeo circuit
as a calf roper. For most of those years, J.J. was ranked in
the Top 20 in the world, winning many prestigious rodeos along
the way. Rydberg started his own business training horses and
teaching roping students in 1984. In the ensuing years, he
trained and showed two American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA)
Calf-Roping Event World Champion horses and was, himself, a
judge at cuttings. In addition to roping horses, he trained
cutting and barrel racing champions as well. One was a finalist
for AQHA World Show Jr. Cutting champion and won the Western
States Cutting Challenge. J.J. has also shown Futurity and
halter horses successfully.
As a second-generation professional trainer,
he knows what he teaches from a practical and theoretical
standpoint. A gifted teacher, he has been instrumental
in restructuring the HTM program to include two Associates
of Applied Science majors in Training and Horsemanship & Management
and several certificates of study.
jj.rydberg@lamarcc.edu
719.336.1623 (office)
719.336.4469 (barn)
Jason Kravig-HTM Instructor
Jason Kravig is LCC's newest Horse Training & Management
instructor. Although he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Ag Business and Agronomy
from Oklahoma Panhandle State University , he has been training horses
professionally since he was in the fifth grade. After graduating from
Karval High School (Karval, Colorado) he spent three years training cutting
horses and rodeoing before choosing to earn his degree and returned to
his craft after its completion.
During his years of training horses, he found opportunities to learn from world champion trainers, gaining insight for his own training techniques. Many leading trainers acted as mentors as he continued to gain experience and hone his methods. He sees lead instructor JJ Rydberg's and his theories on training parallel, being alike in teaching LCC's HTM students, but leaving room for continuous improvement in the program.
Jason continues to operate his own training business outside of Lamar, Colorado with his wife Renee.
Jason Kravig
719.336.4469 (barn)
Marilyn
Camarillo – EBM Instructor 
As
LCC's newest Equine instructor, Marilyn heads LCC's growing Equine
Business Management offering. Prior to being recruited to join LCC's
staff, Marilyn owned Marilyn Camarillo Training Stables, where she trained
several of the nation's finest NFR-qualifier barrel horses, gave lessons
to thousands of riders with a range of skill level from beginner to accomplished,
and presented more than 50 clinics all over the United States. Aside
from bringing a vast knowledge and experience in the equine industry
to LCC, one of Marilyn's key roles is to build and strengthen the
Equine Business degree as the lead instructor of the program.
marilyn.camarillo@lamarcc.edu
719.336.1623
Brad Malone - HTM Instructor, Ag Instructor
As an Ag producer, Brad Malone knows how rewarding and frequently demanding
Ag production can be. His experience in working as a lender has given
him an equally unique perspective. He brings both these angles to the
Ag courses he instructs.
Malone finds it satisfying to assist individuals in adopting new and successful
ideas and techniques in their personal agricultural businesses. The challenge
is to help producers look beyond their current circumstances and a natural
resistance to change in the midst of difficult economic times.
Malone is currently working toward a Masters Degree
in Agriculture from Colorado State University. He holds a Bachelor of
Science in Business Administration with a Finance emphasis from Adams
State College.
A native to the Wiley area, Malone grew up on an irrigated farm and understands
the passion for farming and ranching. He continues to keep his hand
in agriculture by living and working on his wife’s family farm
and ranch and running cattle of his own. He is married to Stephanie
(Smartt) and they two sons.
brad.malone@lamarcc.edu
719.336.1628
Del Chase - Coordinator of Agricultural
Studies
Del Chase, LCC’s coordinator of agricultural studies, teaches, advises
students, develops curriculum and course delivery models, creates and
improves existing articulation agreements with 4-year institutions, coordinates
recruiting of ag students, and supervises LCC’s ag faculty. His main
emphases outside the classroom have been to continue to strengthen LCC’s
ag programs, in part by developing articulation agreements with four year
colleges and universities, and expand continuing education courses to
the local ag industry.
Chase’s love for agricultural youth fuels his compassion to make
LCC’s agriculture programs challenging and rewarding. “We have
some of the most knowledgeable instructors that truly care about the success
of their students. We believe that our ag programs are the ‘The Best
in the West’,” explains Chase.
A resident of McClave for over twenty years, Chase was an ag education
instructor as well as FFA advisor for twenty-one years, sharing responsibilities
with Don Thorne for the last six. During his tenure, McClave FFA won multiple
state and national awards for its innovative and successful endeavors.
A Colorado native, Chase was born and raised in Flagler. He graduated
from Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture
and a Masters of Agriculture. His wife, Lori, and daughters, Tatum and
Maggie, reside in McClave and are involved in family ranching and farming
enterprises.
del.chase@lamarcc.edu
719.336.1629
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