Dressage clinician, coach, motivational speaker, ballroom dancer, international rider and author, the multi-talented Jane Savoie died yesterday at the age of 71.
Even though she was ill with multiple myeloma for years, this shining light always kept going, and her final book was published just a month before her death.
Jane Savoie. (Photo courtesy U.S. Dressage Federation)
A member of the Roemer Foundation/USDF Hall of Fame, Ms. Savoie was the dressage coach for the 1996 and 2004 Canadian Olympic eventing teams. She also coached her friend, Sue Blinks, to team bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Devoted to adult amateurs, she motivated thousands of them with her first book, “That Winning Feeling! Program Your Mind for Peak Performance,” published in 1992. Her positive nature was contagious.
The Vermonter also wrote fiction and her final nonfiction work, “Dressage Between the Jumps: The Secret to Improving Your Horse’s Performance,” was published in 2020. Her first novel, “Second Chances,” came out shortly thereafter.
Survivors include her husband, Rhett.