Idaho
Ricochet Mounted Archers perform at the Equus and Overture in Nampa
NAMPA, Idaho — The Equus and Overture is an important fundraiser for the Idaho Horse Park Foundation at the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa. At this event, they raise money through auctions, hand out awards, and dazzle the audience with a number of different demonstrations.
One of those demonstrations included the Ricochet Mounted Archers — this group of ladies fires an arrow at a target while riding their horses. Karen Sibernagel Danley started this group and that also features an interesting story.
“It was an exciting decision during COVID in 2020 — a few of my friends said ‘teach us mounted archery’,” said Karen. “We can socially distance and not worry about it so that was actually how mounted archery started here in the Treasure Valley.”
Mounted archery also led Karen on an interesting adventure as she traveled to Mongolia in 2023 to compete in the Spirit Games and also be a part of the support crew for Team USA in the world championships.
“The roots of mounted archery is in Mongolia with Ghengas Khan and it was fascinating to be in Mongolia,” said Karen. “There is also a lot of history with women in archery.”
This all-female team dazzles in their performance which includes Sianna Gable and her horse Obi-Wan Kenobi. Sianna has a passion for jumping so she incorporated that into the routine after she learned archery from Karen.
“Karen just came out to my house and taught me a lot on all my other horses and I eventually got this guy to come out and do it,” said Gable. “He’s great, he really is.”
The Equus and Overture’s theme this year was horses and all that jazz. Karen really enjoyed that aspect of performing their routine while the band played ‘Jump, Jive and Wail.’
“This is really fun because we put the music together with the horses and the archery,” said Karen.
At the event, Jon and Tanya Roeser were honored as the horsemen of the year by the Idaho Horse Park Foundation.
Cort Dennison, one of the University of Washington’s more decorated linebackers over the past decade and a half, has joined Thomas Ford’s new Idaho coaching staff as its defensive coordinator, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
Dennison, 35, comes to the Vandals from Missouri State, where he was the defensive coordinator for one seasons for the FCS soon to be FBS program.
Considered one of college football’s rising assistant coaches and a proven recruiter, Dennison has been trying to rebuild his career since getting fired at Louisville in 2021 while serving the second of two stints with the Cardinals.
Sources: Cort Dennison has accepted the job as the defensive coordinator at Idaho. He was last the inside LB coach at Missouri State. He’s worked as an assistant at Louisville for two stints. He’s worked on staffs at Utah in 2023 and coached outside LBs at Oregon in 2018.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) December 26, 2024
According to reports, he was involved in a domestic dispute with another Louisville athletic department employee in which all allegations against him later were withdrawn.
A Salt Lake City native, Dennison went home and worked at Utah in 2023 as a defensive quality control coach for Kyle Whittingham.
For Louisville, he joined an ACC team headed up by coach Bobby Petrino in 2014-17 and again in 2019-21 for coach Scott Satterfield, holding a variety of assignments that included co-defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach.
Peter Sirmon, former UW linebackers coach in 2012-13 and now the California defensive coordinator, worked with Dennison as the Louisville DC in 2017.
Dennison spent the 2018 season with Oregon as its linebackers coach.
As a player, Dennison was recruited to the UW in 2007 by Tyrone Willingham’s staff. By 2011, the 6-foot-1, 234-pound linebacker was a team captain for Steve Sarkisian, a 30-game starter and a second-team All-Pac-12 selection who topped the conference in tackles with 128.
Dennison finished with 15 tackles in his final Husky outing, a 67-56 loss in the Alamo Bowl to Baylor and Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Robert Griffin III.
For the latest UW football and basketball news, go to si.com/college/washington
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