Cross Training Horsemanship with Chad Coppess

Chad Coppess is the Ranch Director at Grace Adventures, an equipping and training center located in the Silver Lake/Mears area of Michigan. There he manages 50 saddle horses, a few teams of draft horses and mules, and a dozen staff. Chad has also founded Cross Training Horsemanship where he travels teaching healthy relationship principles and character development to audiences while training horses. He has been a member of the Muskegon County Mounted Division since 2002. In 2005 he competed in his only Mounted Police Competition and won. In January he and his police horse where invited to participate in President Obama’s inauguration parade. A life member of CHA, Chad is currently certified as wilderness guide and outfitter, and an assistant trail clinic instructor. Chad’s background in horses goes back to his grandfather, a Michigan dairy farmer that started a horse ranch ministry in 1968 and his father who resides and ranched in Custer, South Dakota. He and his wife, Tricia, have one daughter and one son.