Mia Purdom

Mia has been riding for 16 years and teaching for eight years, with experience in various English and Western disciplines. Mia grew up in Friendswood, TX riding mainly English hunter/jumpers and teaching English, Western, and Polocrosse at summer camps. After graduating from high school, she moved to Rhode Island, where she worked as a groom, trainer, and instructor at Newport Polo while captaining her intercollegiate team. She taught kid and adult lessons and helped manage and develop the interscholastic and intercollegiate polo programs. She has been riding at Bailey Oaks Farms since 2021 after moving back to Texas. She is finishing her computer science degree at the University of Houston-Clear Lake while still an active member of the United States Polo Association (USPA). (Source)