2025 Annual Symposium & Footing Academy Package

REGISTER NOW FOR THE LEAGUE'S 6-DAY PACKAGE: THE ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM & FOOTING ACADEMY

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The League's Annual Symposium is an unmatched, comprehensive educational experience that brings together in one location facility directors, managers, and their respective staff from all over North America.  In a three-day format combining professional speaker presentations, facility tours, round-table discussions, networking sessions and social engagements, the League's Symposium engages various industry-specific topics to address challenges and to create invaluable opportunities for attendees to discover solutions, raise questions and meet experts in their unique professional field. 

The League in partnership with Middle Tennessee State University offers recognized education credits through its Annual Symposium that form an approved curriculum culminating in the industry's only certification title, the Certified Manager of Equine Centers.  For more information on the CMEC, please see our Get Certified page.

PLUS INCLUDE THE FOOTING ACADEMY FA101 COURSE

The League's Footing Academy FA101 - An Introduction to Footing provides attendees a comprehensive overview of proper arena footing and its required maintenance. This course's curriculum is suitable for all audiences - whether new to or well-versed in footing - and is devoted to learning about soil essentials, varying arena conditions and responding maintenance, accomplishing moisture and dust control, and adjusting for indoor vs outdoor environments. A broad range of footing content is considered, including clay, sand, soils, synthetics and arena "additives". This is course is comprised of both classroom time and arena time at the host facility.

Attendees are not required to operate equipment in this Academy but can look forward to up-close examination and discussion of maintenance equipment such as tractors, drags, watering systems/vehicles, etc. 

(16) Hours Education over (2) Days of Attendance.

TO REGISTER ONLINE, please click the REGISTER button on this page (it's above when viewing on a mobile device; to the left when viewing on a browser).

TO REGISTER BY MAIL, please use this form print and send with a check payable to: 

The League of Agricultural & Equine Centers

PO Box 5537

Aiken, SC 29803

TO RESERVE LODGING AT OUR HOST-HOTEL - SOUTH POINT HOTEL, CASINO & SPA - link here and use the League's Group Code LEA0107 to secure significantly discounted rates! This discount block expires December 17, 2024.  Please book early!