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Haas USET Athlete of the Month January 2000
Following an already impressive start to the 1999 season, Haas won the Grand Prix Edouard Leclec in Cannes, France on Aphnee Du Marais in June. She topped an international field of 27 entries which included Olympic veterans from Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Ireland and Brazil. In the fall of 1999, she was named Leading Rider at CSI-W Helsinki, Finland, thanks in part to the USET Show Jumping Developing Rider grant she received in 1999.
Haas first received attention in 1995 when she won the Individual Bronze medal for show jumping at the North American Young Rider Championships. In 1997 when she won the BET/USET Show Jumping Talent Search Finals-West, presented by Sooner Trailer. In April 1999, she served notice that she will be a force to be reckoned with on the Grand Prix circuit by placing third in one of the nation's biggest Grand Prix events, the $150,000 Budweiser American Invitational in Tampa. Related
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- January 24, 2000 - Elise Haas of Sausalito, CA, was named the United
States Equestrian Team (USET) Athlete of the Month for January following
her victory at the Inge Bank Prize Grand Prix at CSI-W Amsterdam, Holland
in December. Haas was the youngest rider, the first woman and the first
American ever to win the Grand Prix at Amsterdam since it started in
1978. With this latest honor, she is now the first USET athlete of the
new century to win the Athlete of the month. The twenty year old Haas'
impressive victory was so noteworthy on many levels for herself and
for the United States that the USET decided to honor her in January
for her December performance. 
The Developing
Rider program provides grants for promising riders to compete in Europe
as part of USET rider tours. European tours provide unique and challenging
experience for riders. Haas has benefited greatly from her experience
in Europe. On the 1999 USET Developing Rider tour, she helped the USET
to Nation Cup wins in Falsterbo, Sweden and Budapest, Hungary. 
